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The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity by Andrew Gailey (Paperback, 2016)

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The cult of political biography is gently withering with the decline in the number of its adherents. Draws on unique access to the family archive at Clandeboye. The Lost Imperialist. Short Title The Lost Imperialist.

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Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering career which few could equal. As Viceroy of India and Goverr-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 for the annexation of Egypt and preventing war from breaking out on India's North-West Frontier.Dufferin was much more than a diplomat and politician, however: he was a leading Irish landlord, an adventurer and a travel writer whose Letters from High Latitudes proved a publishing sensation. He also became a celebrity of the time, and in his attempts to sustain his reputation he became trapped by his own inventions, thereafter living his public life in fear of exposure. Ingenuity, ability and charm usually saved the day, yet in the end catastrophe struck in the form of the greatest City scandal for forty years and the death of his heir in the Boer War.With unique access to the family archive at Clandeboye, Andrew Gailey presents a full biography of the figure once referred to as the 'most popular man in Europe'.

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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
ISBN-10
1444792458
ISBN-13
9781444792454
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221243310

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Weight
348g
Height
198mm
Width
137mm

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Place of Publication
London
Spine
30mm
Prizes
Winner of Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016.
Author Biography
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.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Author(s)
Andrew Gailey
Date of Publication
11/02/2016
Format Details
B-Format Paperback
Subject
Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Imprint
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Biography: Historical, Political & Military

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