Henry Penruddocke Wyndham

A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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

Autorenporträt

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.