"And the other nephew, Francis Everton - what about him?"
"Bad hat," said Henry. Remittance man. Old Everton paid him to keep away. Glasgow was a safe distance - he could soak quietly in the cheaper brands of alcohol without any danger of getting into the London papers."
(This is from The Case is Closed, by Patricia Wentworth. Wikipedia says, "In Victorian British culture, a remittance man was usually the black sheep of an upper- or middle-class family who was sent away (from the United Kingdom to the rest of the British Empire), and paid to stay away. He was generally of dissolute or drunken character and may have been sent overseas after disgraces at home. Harry Grey, 8th Earl of Stamford, is an example; he was sent to South Africa before he inherited the titles and fortune of his third cousin.")
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