Peter Nugent

From the Chaplin and Skinner family book:

In the latter years of his life Colonel Nugent seems to have been much in need of money. Probably the style which he had been obliged to maintain at Aylesbury helped to cripple his finances. We have already seen that in February, 1822, he petitioned the East India Company for £3,000 which he had spent during his recruiting services in 1789 and subsequent years. In 1833 he was in friendly correspondence with Sir Percy Nugent of Donore as to certain litigation then pending between them, and arising from a judgment held by Colonel Nugent on one of the late Sir James Nugent's estates. Colonel Nugent suggested that they should amicably settle the matter themselves, without the intervention of law or lawyers, and assured Sir Percy that if he would take the case into his serious consideration, and agree to some arrangement to make the short remainder of his life (he was then 78) comfortable, he might be induced to forego some part of his claim upon the estates. Again, on the 1st October, 1835 [see letter of that date], Colonel Nugent writes to his grandson, Acton S. Ayrton, then travelling in Ireland, complaining of the non-payment of certain rents from Sir Percy's estates.
I am inclined to think that some settlement of these matters was arrived at either shortly before or shortly after Colonel Nugent's death, and chiefly through the intervention of Acton S. Ayrton,