Henry Penruddocke Wyndham

Gebundenes Buch

A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales

Beschreibung

Part of a long series of classic travel books about or including North Wales. Whig politician, topographer, and antiquarian Henry Penruddocke Wyndham describes Wales' castles and brooding natural beauty, emphasising history and architecture.

Autor

Although by profession a politician, Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819) was by inclination a topographer and antiquarian. Educated at Eton and Wadham College, Oxford, he was elected a freeman of Salisbury in 1761, served as Mayor in 1770-1, and became High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1772. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1777) and the Royal Society (1783). In 1795, he entered Parliament as MP for Wiltshire, nominally a Whig, though he rarely attended. Wyndham is best remembered for his literary works, including A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales (1775), a history of Wiltshire drawn from Domesday (1788), and The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington (1784), which remains an important source on 18th-century politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hounskull Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781910893319
• ISBN-10: 1910893315
• Artikelnr.: 72791164