A Strong Supporting Cast: The Shaw Lefevres 1789-1936

by F. M. G. Willson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474241366
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/19/2015
Series:	History: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

F. M. G. Willson was Vice-Chancellor of Murdoch University. Prior to that he was Principle of the University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Family Trees and Illustrations
Foreword Nicholas Wickham-Irving
Introduction
1 Shaws
2 Lefevres into Shaw Lefevres
3 Into Politics
4 Enter Three Sons
5 Families, 1823-1834
6 Brothers for Reform
7 To the Speaker's Chair
8 From Poor Law to Free Trade
9 'La Reyne Le Veult'
10 Omnibus Commissioner
11 Families, 1835-1860
12 Young Radical George
13 Jane and Rachael
14 Jourbaneyman Years
15 Last Acts of Three Brothers
16 The First Man After Adam
17 Frustration and Recovery, 1885-1886
18 The Governor's Lady
19 Madeleine and Somerville Hall
20 The Bradford Years
21 Kingsworthy and Eversley
22 Requiescant
Appendix I: A North Sea Voyage in 1862
Appendix II: Published Works of George John Shaw Lefevre, Baron Eversley
Sources
Notes
Index