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Master & Madman
The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN
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Artikel-Nr:
9780864926678
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.03.2012
Seiten:
274
Autor:
Peter Thomas
Gewicht:
612 g
Format:
234x152x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Peter Thomas, a devoted fly fisherman and founding publisher of Goose Lane Editions, was also the author of three books of poetry. Among his prose works are The Welsher, a novel, and Strangers from a Secret Land, about Welsh settlement in Canada, which won the Welsh Arts Council's annual award for a work of non-fiction. He lived in St. Andrews until his death in 2007.
On June 1, 1823, the Honourable Anthony Lockwood, a member of New Brunswick's Executive Council, dictated a proclamation in Fredericton's public square. He then took to his horse, galloped through the streets, and, brandishing a pair of sawn-off pistols, declared that he was overthrowing the government. Lockwood's one-man coup d'éat failed. Arrested by the High Sheriff, he was jailed and later declared mad. Officially removed from office in November 1825, he fled home to England.