 i - p. 484) this drink was invented by Col. Francis Negus (d.1732), a British courtier (commissioner for executing the office of Master of the Horse from 1717 to 1727, then Master of the Buckhounds).James Boswell refers to it repeatedly in his "London Journal".Negus is also referred to in "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, when Jane drinks it on arrival at Thornfield Hall.