Captain Blifil and his wife start to grow cool towards one another, and the former is found dead from Apoplexy one evening after taking his customary evening stroll prior to dinner.
The Blessingtons and the new couple moved to Paris towards the end of 1828, taking up residence in the Hôtel Maréchal Ney, where the Earl suddenly died at forty-six of an apopleptic stroke in 1829.
In 1680, he was created Earl of Bellomont but died a few years later of an apoplexy and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral.
Waldo died of apoplexy near present-day Bangor, Maine in 1759 while participating in a military expedition with Governor Thomas Pownall.
He died of apoplexy in Rome, 19 March 1894, and was buried in the Campo Verano.