Description |
xv, 315 pages, 44 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
Contents |
Republicans and royalists -- Young Tommy Townshend -- The parliamentary apprentice -- Cousin George and the conquest of Quebec -- George III and Tommy's Whig inheritance -- The American Stamp Act -- Cousin Charles and his tea tax -- Wilkes and liberty : Tommy's defence of dissent -- Opposition -- The dye is cast -- At war with America -- At war in parliament -- Britain on the brink -- Cousin Cornwallis and Yorktown -- Oh God! It's all over! -- Tommy re-enters the ministry -- The American peace talks -- Strachey strikes peace with America -- Tommy's defence of the peace -- Aloft in a storm -- Family and friends -- The golden age of Irish government -- From nabobs to Nootka -- Loyalists transform Canada -- Dorchester upon the spot -- Nelson, Bligh and Phillip -- Sydney, the soft touch -- Transportation where? -- The First Fleet -- Sydney Cove -- First news of Phillip -- Madness and regency -- A good retreat -- Give me my draught . |
Summary |
Just who was the man whose name is proudly borne by Australia's oldest city, and by another city in Canada? When the British cabinet accepted his recommendation to send convicts to Botany Bay, Lord Sydney, as secretary of state, instructed the Treasury 'forwith' to provide for the First Fleet. A John Bull figure, full of bumptious ambition and self-confidence, Sydney had a remarkable political career, largely in opposition. He had sympathised with rebebllious American colonists while holding true to British interests, and in 1782 he led in settling the peace between Americans and Britons. As a peer he chose the name Sydney for his barony in memory of his distant uncle Algernon Sidney, beheaded in 1683 for writing 'the people of England... may change or take away kings'. This very fine biography is a story to savour |
Analysis |
Australian |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-308) and index |
Subject |
Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800.
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Prisoners -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
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Penal colonies -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney
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Politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Politicians -- Great Britain -- 1789-1820 -- Biography
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114312
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Australia -- History -- 1788-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009593
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056908
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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LC no. |
2012453184 |
ISBN |
9781921875434 |
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9781921875533 (hbk.) |
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