The Lost Imperialist
Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2016
Summary
Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering career which few could equal. As Viceroy of India and Governor-General of Canada, he held the two most exalted positions available under the Crown, but prior to this his achievements as a British ambassador included restoring order to sectarian conflict in Syria, helping to keep Canada British, paving the way …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444792454 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444792458 |
| Author: | Andrew Gailey |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 137mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
The cult of political biography is gently withering with the decline in the number of its adherents. How pleasing and unexpecting, then, to read about Lord Dufferin, in a scholarly, well-researched volume, elegantly written and published by John Murrya, which in its ancien regime heyday issued many such tomes. Andrew Gailey is a fine historian - Literary Review
A scholarly book that will leave readers wiser about Victorian England as well as one of its most distinguished characters - Country LifeA story with a terrific denouement and unexpected psychological twists, skilfully unravelled by Gailey, whose research has been prodigious - IndependentWell equipped to convey Dufferin’s importance as an Ulster icon in the imperial age, [Andrew Gailey] also handles the haut ton of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain with aplomb. He writes engagingly, a graceful turn of phrase leavened by the odd stiletto thrust, and he is an acute psychologist - Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, OxfordAbout The Author
Andrew Gailey
Andrew Gailey has taught history at Eton College since 1981 and was a housemaster from 1993 to 2006. Since then he has been elected Vice-Provost and a Fellow of the College. A graduate of St Andrews and the University of Cambridge, he is the author of numerous studies of Anglo-Irish relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and has a particular research interest in constructive unionism.
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