George Selwyn
by George Augustus Selwyn
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About this eBook
- Author
- Selwyn, George Augustus, 1719-1791
- Title
- George Selwyn : His letters and his life
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Marjorie Fulton
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Selwyn, George Augustus, 1719-1791 -- Correspondence
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 16661
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16661
- Release Date
- September 5, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.GEORGE SELWYN: HIS LETTERS AND HIS LIFE — PREFACE — CONTENTS — NOTE ON ILLUSTRATIONS — TABLE OF DATES 1719. Birth. 1739. Matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford. 1740. Clerk of the Irons and Surveyor of Meltings at the Mint. 1742-3. In Paris; having gone down from Oxford for a time. 1745. Finally left Oxford. 1747. M.P. for Ludgershall. 1751. Death of father and elder brother. 1754. M.P. for Gloucester. 1755. Paymaster of the Works. 1767. Correspondence with fifth Earl of Carlisle commences. 1779. Registrar of the Court of Chancery of Barbadoes. 1780. Loses seat for Gloucester. M.P. for Ludgershall. 1782. Loses office of Paymaster of the Works. 1784. Surveyor-General of Land Revenues of the Crown. 1791. Death.
- 2.CHAPTER 1. GEORGE SELWYN—HIS LIFE, HIS FRIENDS, AND HIS AGE
- 3.CHAPTER 2. 1767-1769 THE CORRESPONDENCE COMMENCES. — CHAPTER 3. 1773-1777, 1779 AND 1780 POLITICS AND SOCIETY — CHAPTER 4. 1781 THE DISASTERS IN AMERICA — CHAPTER 5. 1782. THE FALL OF LORD NORTH. — CHAPTER 6. 1786-1791 THE CLOSING CENTURY
- 4.INDEX — Y
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