Lord Liverpool - the Life & Political Career of Robert Banks Jenkinson 2nd Earl Liverpool - Hardcover

Gash, N

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674539109 ISBN 13: 9780674539105

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1985

Synopsis

This title provides a biography of the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, who held the post from 1812 to 1827. He steered Britain through the end of the Napoleonic Wars, through periods of unrest through Catholic emancipation.

About this title

About the Author:

Norman Gash was born in India in 1912. In 1933 he took a First in Modern History at St John's College, Oxford. During the Second World War he served in military intelligence and rose to the rank of major. In 1953 he published Politics in the Age of Peel, and after two years at the University of Leeds he was appointed Professor of History at St Andrews, a position he held until 1980. His other publications included The Age of Peel (1968); Reaction and Reconstruction in English Politics, 1832-1852 (1966); Lord Liverpool (1984); Pillars of Government (1986); and Aristocracy and People: England 1815-1865 (1979). He was appointed CBE in 1989, and died in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0674539109
• ISBN 13: 9780674539105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296