A Character of the Trimmer
Being a Short Life of the First Marquis of Halifax
Published on 1. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
366 pages
978-1-107-45564-1 (ISBN)
Description
Helen Charlotte Foxcroft (1865-1950) was a renowned British historian and literary editor. In this book, which was first published in 1946, Foxcroft provides a concise biography of the statesman and writer Sir George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax, also known as 'The Trimmer'. The text condenses and updates material taken from an earlier two-volume work, The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile (1898). This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the life of Savile and British history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
516 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-45564-1 (9781107455641)
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Content
Preface; 1. Birth, ancestry, and childhood; 2. Youth; 3. The Restoration. Savile enters politics. Ascendancy of Clarendon; 4. In the House of Lords. Ascendancy of Buckingham and the 'cabal'. The embassy of 1670; 5. Under Danby's ascendancy; 6. The 'Popish plot'. Fall of Danby. The opposition in office; 7. In retreat: February to September 1680; 8. The exclusion contest of 1680/1; 9. In the government, 1681-5; 10. In disgrace, 1685-8; 11. The revolution, 1688-9; 12. In office, February 1688/9 to February 1689/90; 13. In opposition to the end: summary; Notes and references; Index.