Wikipedia says that the provenance is... sketchy, to say the least: > The claim that he had wanted to give £10,000 first appears in Taylor & Mackay's Life and

Wikipedia says that the provenance is... sketchy, to say the least: > The claim that he had wanted to give £10,000 first appears in Taylor & Mackay's Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel (1851), but the book is not referenced and no source is given. A second source, dating to 1894, is more explicit: the Irish nationalist William J. O'Neill Daunt claimed to have heard from the son of the sultan's personal physician that he "had intended to give £10,000 to the famine-stricken Irish, but was deterred by the English ambassador, Lord Cowley, as Her Majesty, who had only subscribed £1000, would have been annoyed had a foreign sovereign given a larger sum…" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%E2%80%93Turkey_relations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%E2%80%93Turkey_relat...