Isbn: 9780864926678 - master & madman: the surprising rise and disastrous fall of the hon anthony lockwood rn (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 274 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | 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'&#233tat 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. But who was Anthony Lockwood? Much of his story has been lost -- in fact, Lockwood himself destroyed many of the records. Forced into the British Navy off of a slave ship, he rose to the rank of Master. He was commended for bravery in action against the French; shipwrecked and imprisoned in France; appointed master attendant of the naval yard at Bridgetown, Barbados, during the year the slave trade was abolished; and served as a hydrographer in the English Channel and the West Indies. In 1814 he began a marine survey of Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy. Against all odds, he managed to finesse a treasury appointment as Surveyor General of New Brunswick. Despite being out of step with polite Loyalist society, he threw himself into the job of developing the province and settling its immigrants, becoming the right-hand man of the Lieutenant-Governor, General George Stracey Smyth. He lost it all on that summer day in 1823. Here for the first time is the spectacular story of that astonishing rise and tumultuous fall.…