Master Madman by Thomas Peter (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Master and Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. 272pp., b/w illus. Head and tail of spine bumped o/w a lovely copy in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New hardback copies at a reduced price.; The life of Anthony Lockwood who rose from obscurity and life as a common seaman, to high office in colonial New Brunswick. Illustrated.; 272 pages.

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Condition: 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.…