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PREFACE

NOTE ON ILLUSTRATIONS

TABLE OF DATES. 1719. Birth.. 1739. Matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford.. 1740. Clerk of the Irons and Surveyor of Meltings at the Mint.. 1742-3. In Paris; having gone down from Oxford for a time.. 1745. Finally left Oxford.. 1747. M.P. for Ludgershall.. 1751. Death of father and elder brother.. 1754. M.P. for Gloucester.. 1755. Paymaster of the Works.. 1767. Correspondence with fifth Earl of Carlisle commences.. 1779. Registrar of the Court of Chancery of Barbadoes.. 1780. Loses seat for Gloucester. M.P. for Ludgershall.. 1782. Loses office of Paymaster of the Works.. 1784. Surveyor-General of Land Revenues of the Crown.. 1791. Death.

CHAPTER 1. GEORGE SELWYN—HIS LIFE, HIS FRIENDS, AND HIS AGE

CHAPTER 2. 1767-1769 THE CORRESPONDENCE COMMENCES.

CHAPTER 3. 1773-1777, 1779 AND 1780 POLITICS AND SOCIETY

CHAPTER 4. 1781 THE DISASTERS IN AMERICA

CHAPTER 5. 1782. THE FALL OF LORD NORTH.

CHAPTER 6. 1786-1791 THE CLOSING CENTURY

INDEX