 Yet another claim is that Wardour is a portrait of his own author as a true-blue Tory supporter of the claims of the established aristocratic order; A. N. Wilson was also struck by the similarity Sir Arthur displays to Scott's behaviour in later years, “duped by hare-brained financial schemes and "folie de grandeur"”, and, when his fortune is restored, talking of buying contiguous estates that would stretch from shore to shore.Sir Arthur Wardour later appeared in the fictional Laurence Templeton's Introduction (or “Dedicatory Epistle”) to Scott's "Ivanhoe".There Templeton, the ostensible author of the novel, tells us he has based “his” story of "Ivanhoe" on a medieval manuscript owned by Sir Arthur, who guards it jealously while being unable to read a syllable of it, and who insists on Templeton referring to it in pompous Blackletter type as formula_1 As the novel progresses Templeton several times refers back to this manuscript.