Career
Later plays included Maids and Bachelors (1806), The Mysterious Bride (1808), Bombastes Furioso (?), Ethelinde (an opera, circa 1810 at Drury Lane), and Lose Number Time, a comedy. None are believed to have been printed, bar some portions of Sleeping Beauty. He succeeded to the baronetcy on 26 January 1815, as the only surviving son of his father, William Charles Farrell-Skeffington, 1st Baronet of Skeffington Hall, Leicestershire (but did not inherit Skeffington Hall itself, which had been sold in 1814).
However, he had never married, and the title became extinct on his death for lack of an heir.
He was a noted dandy and was consulted on dress and style by the Prince Regent. He invented the colour Skeffington brown.
He was caricatured by Gillray and satirised by Byron and Moore.
