Sir Robert Walpole
Title | Sir Robert Walpole PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Charles Ewald |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 486 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Sir Robert Walpole
Title | Sir Robert Walpole PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Kemp |
Publisher | London : Weidenfeld and Nicholson |
Total Pages | 174 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The Great Man
Title | The Great Man PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Pearce |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 506 |
Release | 2011-03-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1446420337 |
The year 1721 has many splendours: great houses built by William Kent, fine pictures and the fruits of commerce. But there are also thirteen public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic, organised crime rampages through the streets. And politics are ferocious. Only a generation earlier, The Pretender failed to take the Crown; the new King is cursed as a damned foreigner; James's followers - the Jacobites - conspire and are persecuted; the South Sea Bubble collapses.Robert Walpole, once imprisoned for financial chicanery, assumes political control and becomes 'Prime Minister'. He personally detects a Jacobite plot, is dismissed in 1727 on the death of George I, recruits the new King's clever wife, Caroline, and bounces cheerfully back. Coarse, corrupt and cynical, Walpole dominates King, Parliament and Government until 1742. This is Mr Worldywiseman, keeping England out of war for twenty years and setting up a stable and growing economy. All politics of a kind we can recognise today begin with Robert Walpole. And here, in Edward Pearce's elegant book, he is brought vividly back to life.
Sir Robert Walpole
Title | Sir Robert Walpole PDF eBook |
Author | Brian W. Hill |
Publisher | Hamish Hamilton |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
"Sir Robert Walpole's ministry (1721-1742) was the longest since the Revolution of 1688. Though he is often called 'the first Prime Minister' Walpole was, Brian Hill suggests, both less and more than his modern counterparts. Less because the term itself was not generally accepted, least of all by Walpole himself, more because he was in practice more powerful than most of his successors"--Jacket, p. [2].
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford
Title | Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford PDF eBook |
Author | William Coxe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 842 |
Release | 1798 |
Genre | Cabinet officers |
ISBN |
An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole..
Title | An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.. PDF eBook |
Author | George Bubb Dodington (Baron of Melcombe Regis) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 20 |
Release | 1726 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
Title | MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE PDF eBook |
Author | William Coxe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 744 |
Release | 1798 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |