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A Strong Supporting Cast : The Shaw Lefevres 1789-1936.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History: Bloomsbury Academic CollectionsPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1993Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (434 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474241373
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Strong Supporting CastDDC classification:
  • 941.080922
LOC classification:
  • CT787.S53 W55 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Family Trees and Illustrations -- Forword -- Introduction -- I Shaws -- II Lefevres into Shaw Lefevres -- III Into Politics -- IV Enter Three Sons -- V Families, 1823-1834 -- VI Brothers for Reform -- VII To the Speaker's Chair -- VIII From Poor Law to Free Trade -- IX 'La Reyne Le Veult' -- X Omnibus Commissioner -- XI Families, 1835-1860 -- XII Young Radical George -- XIII Jane and Rachael -- XIV Journeyman Years -- XV Last Acts of Three Brothers -- XVI The First Man after Adam -- XVII Frustration and Recovery, 1885-1886 -- XVIII The Governor's Lady -- XIX Madeleine and Somerville Hall -- XX The Bradford Years -- XXI Kingsworthy and Eversley -- XXII Requiescant -- Appendix I: A North Sea Voyage in 1862 -- Appendix II: Published Works of George John Shaw Lefevre, Baron Eversley -- Sources -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Drawing upon a wide range of private papers, this family biography recreates the social and domestic setting of an ambitious family which had been part of the highest levels of political leadership in Britain for almost 150 years, throwing important light upon public and private centres of power and influence from the late 18th to the early 20th century.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Family Trees and Illustrations -- Forword -- Introduction -- I Shaws -- II Lefevres into Shaw Lefevres -- III Into Politics -- IV Enter Three Sons -- V Families, 1823-1834 -- VI Brothers for Reform -- VII To the Speaker's Chair -- VIII From Poor Law to Free Trade -- IX 'La Reyne Le Veult' -- X Omnibus Commissioner -- XI Families, 1835-1860 -- XII Young Radical George -- XIII Jane and Rachael -- XIV Journeyman Years -- XV Last Acts of Three Brothers -- XVI The First Man after Adam -- XVII Frustration and Recovery, 1885-1886 -- XVIII The Governor's Lady -- XIX Madeleine and Somerville Hall -- XX The Bradford Years -- XXI Kingsworthy and Eversley -- XXII Requiescant -- Appendix I: A North Sea Voyage in 1862 -- Appendix II: Published Works of George John Shaw Lefevre, Baron Eversley -- Sources -- Notes -- Index.

Drawing upon a wide range of private papers, this family biography recreates the social and domestic setting of an ambitious family which had been part of the highest levels of political leadership in Britain for almost 150 years, throwing important light upon public and private centres of power and influence from the late 18th to the early 20th century.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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