Author: Dumas Malone

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9780331248364

Excerpt from Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 14: Oglethorpe-Platner Horace Walpole, Edmund Burke, and the Georgian Ladies' Clubs, with Hannah More, Mrs. Vesey, Mrs. Carter, and Mrs. Montagu. His death on June 30, 1785, closed a career full of promise and replete with achievement in the expansion of the British empire beyond the seas: the career of an imperial philanthropist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.