Lives of The Lords Strangford, With Their Ancestors and Contemporaries Through Ten Generations.

Lives of The Lords Strangford, With Their Ancestors and Contemporaries Through Ten Generations.

Author: de Fonblanque, Edward Barrington

8vo.(5.5" x 8.5") c1877. de Fonblanque, Edward Barrington. London, Paris & New York. Cassell Petter & Galpin. Half brown leather with generous corners, blindstamp rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title to second compartment. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor edgewear, corners slightly bumped, rubbed. Armorial bookplate of "Esher" to front pastedown. Spots of foxing to first and last few pages, inner text clean.

From Wiki: Edward Barrington de Fonblanque (18 January 1821[1] – 14 June 1895) was a British historian of English, Irish and Huguenot stock. Most of his writings were related to military history and were well received. A mention of his work in 1862 stated: "Mr. Edward de Fonblanque's serious, full and conscientious studies of military organization in the various armies of Europe, — made, we believe, under the auspices of the present Earl of Dalhousie, and published about a year ago, — are worth twenty works like Red, White and Blue." His 1876 work, Political and Military Episodes in the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century was devoted to British General John Burgoyne. He also penned two volumes on the noble Percy and Smythe families, as well as a children's story, Cluck-cluck.

Viscount Strangford was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1628 (396 years ago) for Sir Thomas Smythe. He was a son of John Smith (also Smythe) J.P., High Sheriff of Kent 1600–1601, also M.P. for Aylesbury (in 1584) and Hythe (in 1586, 1587 and 1604), and grandson of Thomas Smythe, of Westenhanger Castle, collector of customs for London, haberdasher, and M.P. The sixth Viscount was British ambassador to Portugal, Sweden, the Ottoman Empire and Russia. In 1825 he was created Baron Penshurst, of Penshurst in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, enabling him and his descendants to sit in the House of Lords. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the seventh Viscount. He was a Conservative politician, best known for his association with Benjamin Disraeli and the Young England movement. He died young and was succeeded by his younger brother, the eighth Viscount. He was a man of letters. The titles became extinct on his death in 1869 (155 years ago), although his widow, Viscountess Strangford, lived until 1887.

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