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Footnotes to History - The Personal Realm of John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty (1809-1830), a "Group Family" (Paperback)
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Footnotes to History - The Personal Realm of John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty (1809-1830), a "Group Family" (Paperback)
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Footnotes to History brings a novel focus to social history. It is
a study of a group family an extended family closely structured
through marriages that were either internal or with trusted
associates. Its members strove cooperatively for their own mutual
benefit. This kind of social entity evolved down the centuries,
reaching its zenith in the early nineteenth century. The family
portrayed, the Pennells, provides a supreme example of such a
united body. John Wilson Croker, his two half-nieces and his best
friend all married into it. The size of this group family gave
ample scope for marriages between cousins. Most men in it gained
prestigious appointments through Crokers patronage, but at the
price of giving him their unswerving loyalty. From diaries,
personal letters, newspaper articles, Chancery papers and
Government documents, Footnotes to History brings the character of
family members to life and shows how they interacted. Their
personalities are portrayed through a wealth of entertaining
anecdotes recorded by their contemporaries. Discussion focuses on
the family in the nineteenth century, but how it evolved is also
described. With their varied occupations and far-flung travel, the
people whose stories are narrated give insight into fascinating but
little frequented byways of British social and colonial history,
such as intelligence gathering in the seventeenth century and the
Newfoundland cod trade in the eighteenth. Their direct
participation in events included riding from Dorset to London to
warn James II personally of the Duke of Monmouths landing and
rescuing Marie Antoinettes daughter from Napoleon. Footnotes to
History takes us on a meandering journey through British history
brought to life by the experiences of one family over more than two
centuries.
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