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The Life and Times of Thomas, Lord Coningsby - The Whig Hangman and his Victims (Hardcover, New)
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The Life and Times of Thomas, Lord Coningsby - The Whig Hangman and his Victims (Hardcover, New)
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This book throws fresh light on British and Irish politics at the
start of the eighteenth century. It tells for the first time the
story of a powerful and eccentric peer, Thomas Coningsby, who
played a key role in Ireland as the kings saviour at the Battle of
the Boyne and as one of the top administrators of the Protestant
ascendancy. It describes his tumultuous career in local and
national politics in England, along with his hectic familial and
private life, marked by his combative behaviour towards neighbours
and tenants in Herefordshire, where he feuded with the Harley clan
and the Duke of Chandos. The book describes his bitter quarrels
with political rivals and shows how these were enlisted by the
greatest poet of the age, Alexander Pope, to form a devastating
critique of the Whig revenge against their discredited rivals.
Based on extensive use of unpublished archives, including the
numerous cache of letters to and from Coningsby; lawsuits; legal
documents such as wills and marriage settlements; as well as
newspapers, pamphlets and printed sources.
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