George Hanger - Saberton, Ian
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Adventurer, army officer, eccentric, humorist, practical joker and rake, George Hanger served as equerry to the Prince of Wales in the late eighteenth century and, as a member of the Prince's fast set, actively participated for over a decade in the dissolute life to which the coterie was accustomed. In doing so he added appreciably to his already notorious reputation. Eventually, says his obituary, "as the Prince advanced in life, the eccentric manners of the Colonel became somewhat too free and coarse for the royal taste" and he was dismissed. A rollicking account of his life, this work also…mehr

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Adventurer, army officer, eccentric, humorist, practical joker and rake, George Hanger served as equerry to the Prince of Wales in the late eighteenth century and, as a member of the Prince's fast set, actively participated for over a decade in the dissolute life to which the coterie was accustomed. In doing so he added appreciably to his already notorious reputation. Eventually, says his obituary, "as the Prince advanced in life, the eccentric manners of the Colonel became somewhat too free and coarse for the royal taste" and he was dismissed. A rollicking account of his life, this work also includes his service as a British officer during the American Revolutionary War.
Autorenporträt
Ian Saberton was educated at Firth Park Grammar School, Sheffield, and at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick in the UK. He holds a PhD in history from the latter, having previously graduated with a BA (Hons) in Russian from the former. After translating technical Russian for the British Library, he entered the UK Government Service.Perhaps of greatest relevance to his writing about the war in the south was his service as an adviser on constitutional and political affairs, machinery of government, contingency planning, devolution and the like in the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) at the height of the troubles. Part of his duties, as the highways and byways of the world were searched for lessons to be learnt, was to write historical papers of an applied nature for the benefit of Ministers. It is then that he became keenly interested in the American Revolution. Overall, what his service in NIO has brought to his re-evaluation of the southern campaigns is hands-on experience in dealing with a quasirevolutionary situation. There are, despite the passage of years, distinct parallels to be drawn between the troubles and the revolutionary war in America.