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An eagerly anticipated biography of one of the greatest statesmen of the Victorian age.

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The cult of political biography is gently withering with the decline in the number of its adherents. How pleasing and unexpected, then, to read about Lord Dufferin, in a scholarly, well-researched volume, elegantly written and published by John Murray, which in its ancient régime heyday issued many such tomes. Andrew Gailey is a fine historian * David Gilmour, Literary Review *
A scholarly book that will leave readers wiser about Victorian England as well as one of its most distinguished characters * Country Life *
A story with a terrific denouement and unexpected psychological twists, skilfully unravelled by Gailey, whose research has been prodigious -- Piers Brendon * Independent *
Well equipped to convey Dufferin's importance as an Ulster icon in the imperial age, [Andrew Gailey] also handles the haut ton of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain with aplomb. He writes engagingly, a graceful turn of phrase leavened by the odd stiletto thrust, and he is an acute psychologist * Roy Foster, Carroll professor of Irish history at Hertford College, Oxford *
Brilliantly places the glamorous but forgotten Irish proconsul Lord Dufferin in a world of contemporary myth-making and celebrity politics * Irish Times *

The Lost Imperialist

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      Publisher John Murray Press
      Published 11 February 2016
      ISBN-13 9781444792454
      978-1444792454
      ISBN-10 1444792458
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An eagerly anticipated biography of one of the greatest statesmen of the Victorian age.

      Trade Review
      The cult of political biography is gently withering with the decline in the number of its adherents. How pleasing and unexpected, then, to read about Lord Dufferin, in a scholarly, well-researched volume, elegantly written and published by John Murray, which in its ancient régime heyday issued many such tomes. Andrew Gailey is a fine historian * David Gilmour, Literary Review *
      A scholarly book that will leave readers wiser about Victorian England as well as one of its most distinguished characters * Country Life *
      A story with a terrific denouement and unexpected psychological twists, skilfully unravelled by Gailey, whose research has been prodigious -- Piers Brendon * Independent *
      Well equipped to convey Dufferin's importance as an Ulster icon in the imperial age, [Andrew Gailey] also handles the haut ton of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain with aplomb. He writes engagingly, a graceful turn of phrase leavened by the odd stiletto thrust, and he is an acute psychologist * Roy Foster, Carroll professor of Irish history at Hertford College, Oxford *
      Brilliantly places the glamorous but forgotten Irish proconsul Lord Dufferin in a world of contemporary myth-making and celebrity politics * Irish Times *

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