List of Earls of Castlehaven, in the Peerage of Ireland

1. George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven
   :created Earl of Castlehaven on 6 September 1616
   :died 20 February 1616/7.
2. Mervyn Tuchet, otherwise Audley, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
   :succeeded his father 20 February 1616/7
   :attainted and executed 14 May 1631.
3. James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven
   :succeeded his father 14 May 1631
   :died sine prole 11 October 1686.
4. Mervyn Tuchet, 4th Earl of Castlehaven
   :succeeded his brother 11 October 1686
   : died 2 November 1686.
5. James Tuchet, 5th Earl of Castlehaven
   :succeeded his father 2 November 1686
   :died 9 August 1700.
6. James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven
   :succeeded his father 9 August 1700
   :died 12 October 1740
7. James Tuchet, 7th Earl of Castlehaven
   :succeeded his father 12 October 1740
   :died 6 May 1769.
8. John Tuchet, 8th Earl of Castlehaven succeeded his brother 6 May 1769
   :died 22 April 1777, at which time the Earldom of Castlehaven and the Barony of Audley of Hely became extinct. The Barony of Audley created by writ of 1312 is deemed to have devolved upon his nephew, son of his sister Elizabeth, namely George Thicknesse, later Thicknesse-Touchet.

Associated titles:

• Baron Audley (E.) (created by writ, 1312)
• Baron Audley of Hely (E.) (created by Letters Patent 1633)
• Baron Audley of Orier (I.) (created 1616)

• Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, A. Sutton, Gloucester, 1982. [originally 13 volumes, published by The St. Catherine Press Ltd, London, England from 1910-1959; reprinted in microprint: 13 vol. in 6, Gloucester: A. Sutton, 1982]
• Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant: Addenda and Corrigenda, Hammond, Peter W., Sutton Publishing, Ltd., Gloucestershire, England, 1998.
• Herrup, Cyntha B., A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999.

List of colors) <-- possibly worth an article if enough obscure ones exist

• Spectral:
  • red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet
• Non-spectral:
  • magenta, fuchsia, umber, isabella, mauve, maroon, ecru, veridian, teal, aqua, pink, brown, Gray (color)grey, coral, gold

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L'esprit de l'escalier staircase wit

L'esprit de l'escalier, literally the wit of the staircase, is the riposte one thinks of after having left the circumstances in which it would have been a prompt, perfect, rejoinder, and is (metaphorically) on one's way down the staircase. The phrase is first used in Paradoxe sur le Comédien by Denis Diderot.

History is full of instances of "staircase wit" in which the rejoinder is supplied (sometimes by someone else) long, long after the circumstances in which it would have been the perfect response. Famous examples would include Eppur si muove (Galileo's supposed response to the Inquisition) and "Here I stand, I can do no other" (Luther's reported answer at the Diet of Worms).