Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge in 2012, the case was described as a "$2.5-million suit" and Bower said, "How can a convicted fraudster find a jury who will say that his reputation has been damaged by a book that says he's a fraudster?" A passing reference in the book to the British businessman, pornographer, and publisher Richard Desmond led to Desmond unsuccessfully suing Bower for libel in 2009. Desmond argued that the description in the book that he was "ground into the dust" when he had published an apology after Black had threatened to sue for libel had weakened his reputation. Notes References Conrad and
Louisa Nott-Bower attended an international women's meeting in Washington D. C., and lectured on women's rights in the United States. In 1924 Lady Nott-Bower spoke at a conference on moral welfare organised by the National Council of Women. Her talk concerned "the problem of sexual offences against children, and suggested certain new lines of action in the case both of the offender and the victim". Yorke was married to Sir Edmund Ernest Nott-Bower, a barrister, and they had a son, Reginald Ernest Nott-Bower. William Nott-Bower was her brother-in-law. Louisa died in London in 1925, age 64. Louisa Nott-Bower Louisa Adelaide Nott-Bower, née