Master and Madman
The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN
Biography & Memoir, Artists, Architects & Photographers, Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Historical
| Author: | Peter Thomas, Nicholas Tracy | ISBN: | 9780864927477 |
| Publisher: | Goose Lane Editions | Publication: | March 30, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Goose Lane Editions | Language: | English |
| Author: | Peter Thomas, Nicholas Tracy |
| ISBN: | 9780864927477 |
| Publisher: | Goose Lane Editions |
| Publication: | March 30, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Goose Lane Editions |
| Language: | English |
Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Despite the coming social reforms undertaken at home, the world of the Georgian British Empire was nothing if not class-conscious and leery of outsiders. But Anthony Lockwood, with no known certain record of his parentage and whose first appearance in history is his signing onto the USS Iphigenia in Jamaica in 1795, certainly broke through this mould. His naval record almost exactly spanned the French wars and the War of 1812, and he was commended for bravery in action against the French, was present at the Spithead Mutiny, shipwrecked and imprisoned in France, appointed master attendant of the naval yard in Bridgetown Barbados, and served as an hydrographer in the English Channel and the West Indies before beginning a three-year marine survey of Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy. All of this certainly seems eventful enough, but he was just getting started.
Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Despite the coming social reforms undertaken at home, the world of the Georgian British Empire was nothing if not class-conscious and leery of outsiders. But Anthony Lockwood, with no known certain record of his parentage and whose first appearance in history is his signing onto the USS Iphigenia in Jamaica in 1795, certainly broke through this mould. His naval record almost exactly spanned the French wars and the War of 1812, and he was commended for bravery in action against the French, was present at the Spithead Mutiny, shipwrecked and imprisoned in France, appointed master attendant of the naval yard in Bridgetown Barbados, and served as an hydrographer in the English Channel and the West Indies before beginning a three-year marine survey of Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy. All of this certainly seems eventful enough, but he was just getting started.
