Author: Richard Lee Bradshaw
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465344799
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Richard Lee Bradshaws well-received first book, Gods Battleaxe, the Life of Lord President Bradshawe, told the little-known story of a 17th century Englishman who rebelled against his King in defense of liberty. In this second book Bradshaw tells the story of an 18th century English politician observing the day-to-day unraveling of Britains control over their North American Colonies. As his countrys policies fail his own life and fortune spins out of control leading ultimately to his suicide on the eve of the American War of Independence. Townshends colonial taxation policies are refused and once again Englishmen rebel against their King in defense of Liberty. Americans fourteenth Colony is proposed, chartered, and then lost, leaving behind the disappointed ambitions of The Lord Chamberlain of England, The Lord Chancellor, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Bradshaw the subject of this biography.
Thomas Bradshaw (1733-1774)
Author: Richard Lee Bradshaw
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465344799
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Richard Lee Bradshaws well-received first book, Gods Battleaxe, the Life of Lord President Bradshawe, told the little-known story of a 17th century Englishman who rebelled against his King in defense of liberty. In this second book Bradshaw tells the story of an 18th century English politician observing the day-to-day unraveling of Britains control over their North American Colonies. As his countrys policies fail his own life and fortune spins out of control leading ultimately to his suicide on the eve of the American War of Independence. Townshends colonial taxation policies are refused and once again Englishmen rebel against their King in defense of Liberty. Americans fourteenth Colony is proposed, chartered, and then lost, leaving behind the disappointed ambitions of The Lord Chamberlain of England, The Lord Chancellor, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Bradshaw the subject of this biography.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465344799
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Richard Lee Bradshaws well-received first book, Gods Battleaxe, the Life of Lord President Bradshawe, told the little-known story of a 17th century Englishman who rebelled against his King in defense of liberty. In this second book Bradshaw tells the story of an 18th century English politician observing the day-to-day unraveling of Britains control over their North American Colonies. As his countrys policies fail his own life and fortune spins out of control leading ultimately to his suicide on the eve of the American War of Independence. Townshends colonial taxation policies are refused and once again Englishmen rebel against their King in defense of Liberty. Americans fourteenth Colony is proposed, chartered, and then lost, leaving behind the disappointed ambitions of The Lord Chamberlain of England, The Lord Chancellor, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Bradshaw the subject of this biography.
Queen of the Courtesans
Author: Barbara White
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752493884
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Fanny Murray was an incomparable Georgian beauty and the most desired courtesan of the 1750s. The daughter of an impoverished musician from Bath, she took London society by storm, not only as the most prized 'purchaseable beauty' of her day, but also as a fashion icon and muse to poets, writers and artists. She counted princes, aristocrats and politicians among her friends and lovers, but relished the company of rogues, fraudsters and ne'er-do-wells. Barbara White presents evidence to suggest that Fanny Murray participated spiritedly in the sexual antics of the notorious 'Monks of Medmenham', the most infamous of the Hell-fire Clubs. After she retired from prostitution, Fanny Murray reinvented herself, entering a pragmatic marriage with the Scottish actor David Ross. Surprisingly, her virtues as a devoted and faithful wife became almost proverbial. Even so, Murray could not escape her disreputable past. In 1763, a scurrilous poem dedicated to her caused a national scandal that ended in the infamous trial of the radical politician John Wilkes for obscene libel. Barbara White's portrait of Fanny Murray takes readers from the brothels of Covent Garden to sex romps at Medmenham Abbey, from refined drawing rooms in London to marital respectability in Edinburgh. This is an illuminating contribution to the scholarly understanding and popular appreciation of a complex and intriguing period of British history. Fanny Murray's triumph – against almost insuperable odds – is a remarkable story, as rich in the telling as it is enthralling.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752493884
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Fanny Murray was an incomparable Georgian beauty and the most desired courtesan of the 1750s. The daughter of an impoverished musician from Bath, she took London society by storm, not only as the most prized 'purchaseable beauty' of her day, but also as a fashion icon and muse to poets, writers and artists. She counted princes, aristocrats and politicians among her friends and lovers, but relished the company of rogues, fraudsters and ne'er-do-wells. Barbara White presents evidence to suggest that Fanny Murray participated spiritedly in the sexual antics of the notorious 'Monks of Medmenham', the most infamous of the Hell-fire Clubs. After she retired from prostitution, Fanny Murray reinvented herself, entering a pragmatic marriage with the Scottish actor David Ross. Surprisingly, her virtues as a devoted and faithful wife became almost proverbial. Even so, Murray could not escape her disreputable past. In 1763, a scurrilous poem dedicated to her caused a national scandal that ended in the infamous trial of the radical politician John Wilkes for obscene libel. Barbara White's portrait of Fanny Murray takes readers from the brothels of Covent Garden to sex romps at Medmenham Abbey, from refined drawing rooms in London to marital respectability in Edinburgh. This is an illuminating contribution to the scholarly understanding and popular appreciation of a complex and intriguing period of British history. Fanny Murray's triumph – against almost insuperable odds – is a remarkable story, as rich in the telling as it is enthralling.
Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland
Author: Ronald Hoffman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807853474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
An intergenerational chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of the Carrolls, a prominent Irish Catholic family in Protestant Maryland. Charles Carroll (1737-1832) who represents the last of the three generations of patriarchs, is perhaps best known as the sole Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence. Tracing the Carroll's history from Ireland to Maryland, this account offers a transatlantic perspective of Anglo-American colonialism and reveals the often overlooked discrimination that Roman Catholics faced in colonial America.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807853474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
An intergenerational chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of the Carrolls, a prominent Irish Catholic family in Protestant Maryland. Charles Carroll (1737-1832) who represents the last of the three generations of patriarchs, is perhaps best known as the sole Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence. Tracing the Carroll's history from Ireland to Maryland, this account offers a transatlantic perspective of Anglo-American colonialism and reveals the often overlooked discrimination that Roman Catholics faced in colonial America.
The House of Commons, 1754-1790
Author: Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780436304200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1978
Book Description
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780436304200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1978
Book Description
The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence
The Correspondence of Edmund Burke: Volume 10, Index
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521210249
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
"Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729[1]? 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro?French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century. Since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism, as well as a representative of classical liberalism."--Wikipedia.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521210249
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
"Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729[1]? 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro?French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century. Since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism, as well as a representative of classical liberalism."--Wikipedia.
The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume X
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226115627
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
"Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729[1]? 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro?French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century. Since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism, as well as a representative of classical liberalism."--Wikipedia.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226115627
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
"Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729[1]? 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro?French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century. Since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism, as well as a representative of classical liberalism."--Wikipedia.
Record of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810
Author: John Blair Linn
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806302143
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806302143
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
Book Description
Pennsylvania Archives
Author: Samuel Hazard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.