Sir Charles Grey First Earl Grey

Author : Paul David Nelson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636732
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Charles Grey, First Earl Grey written by Paul David Nelson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering Grey's importance, and the prominence of the family he helped to found, it is surprising that he has been neglected by history. Only a short sketch in the Dictionary of National Biography, and an article by Sir John Fortescue in the Edinburgh Review have ever attempted even perfunctory assessments of his life. As a man and an army officer, Grey represented some of the best qualities of eighteenth-century British civilization. In America, he fought during the War of American Independence and in 1794 in the West Indies against France. Hence, as Nelson shows, his career is important in American History. Given his long service to the British nation in all her wars from 1744 to 1800, it is clear from Nelson's account that Grey is an important character in British history as well. During his lifetime, Grey proved himself a reliable and successful soldier, earning and deserving all his honors: Knight of the Bath in 1782, baron in 1801, viscount and earl in 1806.

Author : Richard Ormond
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Early Victorian Portraits [in The] National Portrait Gallery written by Richard Ormond and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. G. Otte
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241413370
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statesman of Europe written by T. G. Otte and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century world. The man who spoke them was Britain's longest-ever serving Foreign Secretary (in a single span of office) and one of the great figures of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Statesman of Europe describes the three decades before the First World War through the prism of his biography, which is based almost entirely on archival sources and presents a detailed account of the main domestic and international events, and of the main personalities of the era. In particular, it presents a fresh understanding of the approach to war in the years and months before its outbreak, and Grey's role in the unfolding of events. Yet Grey's life was not all public affairs, momentous as those were. He disliked being in London, much preferring country life at Fallodon, his family estate in Northumberland, and displayed none of the ambition of his contemporaries (or successors). He attended assiduously to his duties as director of the Great North Eastern Railway, one of the transformative enterprises in industry and communications of the period, and wanted to spend as much time as he could fishing. Apart from his memoirs, the only book he wrote was called The Charm of Birds. This hinterland gave quality to his judgements, and made his character attractive to his contemporaries. This important book is the definitive biography of one of the pivotal figures in European diplomacy, and a magnificent portrait of an age.

Author : Charles Grey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
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Download or read book Some Account of the Life and Opinions of Charles, Second Earl Grey written by Charles Grey and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Wesley Derry
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631165224
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles, Earl Grey written by John Wesley Derry and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fresh study of Charles, Earl Grey. It provides a more critical account of Grey than previous books, stressing the traditionalism of his outlook, and his retention of an aristocratic set of values throughout his long political career. Earl Grey is famous as the author of the Great Reform Bill, the achievement which crowned his premiership. The author shows how this followed years of political frustration and disappointment, and that the Reform Bill can only be understood when it is placed in its historical and political context. John Derry describes the reaction in England to the French Revolution, the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and the Irish crisis, and their effect on Grey as a politician. He also focuses on such important influences in Grey's life as his commitment to civil and religious liberties, his devotion to Fox, his disdain for Pitt and detestation of Canning, and his loyalty to Grenville. This penetrating and lucid biography of one of the most influential parliamentary reformers of the nineteenth century reveals the impact of personality on the political events of the period. It also sheds much fascinating light on the nature and practice of politics between the end of the War of American Independence and the accession of Queen Victoria.

Author : Charles Grey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Author : Sir Leslie Stephen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1470 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Sidney Lee
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Total Pages : 1472 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sir Sidney Lee and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Volume ... is intended to form a summary guide to the vast and varied contents of ... the sixty-three volumes of the Dictionary or in the three Supplementary Volumes ... The exclusive aim of the Index and Epitome is to make bare facts and dates as ready of rapid reference as possible."--Page [v].

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Total Pages : 1472 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Simcoe
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Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book The Diary of Mrs. John Graves Simcoe written by Elizabeth Simcoe and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: