H. C. Foxcroft

A Character of the Trimmer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1946, provides a biography of the statesman and writer Sir George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781107455641
• ISBN-10: 1107455642
• Artikelnr.: 41640929

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Birth, ancestry, and childhood
2. Youth
3. The Restoration. Savile enters politics. Ascendancy of Clarendon
4. In the House of Lords. Ascendancy of Buckingham and the 'cabal'. The embassy of 1670
5. Under Danby's ascendancy
6. The 'Popish plot'. Fall of Danby. The opposition in office
7. In retreat: February to September 1680
8. The exclusion contest of 1680/1
9. In the government, 1681-5
10. In disgrace, 1685-8
11. The revolution, 1688-9
12. In office, February 1688/9 to February 1689/90
13. In opposition to the end: summary
Notes and references
Index.