the real Mr Darcy?

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Is this the real Mr Darcy? Letters 'prove' that tall, dark and brooding aristocrat whose wife's adultery scandalised polite society was the inspiration for Jane Austen's hero

Dr Susan Law, from Warwickshire, spend five years researching the real-life inspiration behind Jane Austen's Mr Darcy, and believes it was John Parker, the 1st Earl of Morley.