Few thought he was even a starter There were many who thought themselves smarter But he ended PM CH and OM An earl and a knight of the garter.

-1st Earl
  A limerick on himself, in a letter to Tom  Attlee, 8  Apr.

   In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies.

-Pope, Alexander
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Bathurst', l.229^35.