Please read Alexey Sklyarenko's annotations on Pale Fire, Ada and other Nabokov works here.
In his Commentary to Shade’s poem Kinbote (in VN’s novel Pale Fire, 1962, Shade’s mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla) mentions a decrepit emeritus from Boston whom Professor Hurley described with deep respect as "a true Patrician, a real blue-blooded Brahmin:"