Melton Mowbray & Other Memories.

1st edition. Autobiography of the Anglo Irish writer Moreton Frewen. Pp.xii/311, portrait frontispiece + 15 further black & white plates, dampstain to margin of p.98 and top margin of facing plate. Grey cloth, bleaching to top front andrear corners. Scarce. G+.** "Frewen was a charming if financially incompetent adventurer from an English landed gentry family known for reckless financial and political schemes. He ran through two family fortunes before being granted a remittance and "encouraged" by family to emigrate to America.He emigrated to Wyoming during the cattle boom in the 1870s and 1880s. He married an American heiress and they settled together on a huge Wyoming ranch, The Prince of Wales Ranch, where Frewen built an enormous log lodge/castle later destroyed by fire and ran up ever increasing debt, earning the sobriquets "Mortal Ruin" and "the splendid pauper". Returning to the United Kingdom, where he owned homes in London and Cork, Frewen served as Vice President of the Imperial Federation League. He wrote on tariff reform and other economic matters, and was an advocate of bimetallism. He became involved in Irish affairs through inheriting the Innishannon Estate, some 3,000 acres near Cork, and through his friendships with Lord Dunraven and Timothy Healy (MP). He was elected unopposed at the December 1910 general election as an All-for-Ireland League MP for North East Cork, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He resigned on 5 July 1911 because his seat was needed for Healy and because of his reactionary public statements: his opposition to the Parliament Bill to remove the legislative veto of the House of Lords was proving a political liability. Later he signed the British Covenant in support of Ulster, while continuing to engage in political intrigues". (wiki).

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Publisher: London: Herbert Jenkins, 1924.

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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