The Colonial Administrations Of Sir Thomas Maitland.
£15.00
Publisher
Augustus M. Kelley / Frank Cass and Company Limited.
Place
New York
Date
1969
Synopsis
(reprints of economic classics).
Item Description
8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. viii + 274 pp. Bound in blue cloth, gilt, in price clipped dust wrapper, which has sunned spine and edges. Traces of sunning on lower board edges and browning of flyleaves; otherwise a very good copy. Signature on first free endpaper. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece and by map in text. Account of the overseas career of Sir Thomas Maitland (c.1759-1824), Scottish army officer, politician and MP and colonial administrator. After early service in the West Indies, he was appointed Governor of Ceylon, 1805-11. Peninsular War army service was followed by his becoming Governor of Malta from 1813 and also, after 1815 Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, a British Protectorate from 1815. Reprints the text of the first edition of 1939.
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