Andrew Gordon suggests that a possible stroke before 1907 worsened Beresford's behavior. The counterargument allows that he may have become more difficult with age but points to similar conduct much earlier in his career. Debts, complaints, protected transfers, and political interventions preceded the proposed medical event. Those earlier patterns make a complete change of character doubtful, even without settling the medical question.
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Did illness transform Beresford's character?
Andrew Gordon's suggestion that a stroke worsened Beresford's personality is weighed against evidence of similar conduct throughout his earlier career.