John Morrow is Professor of Political Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been a Bye Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge, a visiting lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

• 1. Introduction2. The Challenge of Command3. Authority and Command4. Anxiety and Failure5. Difficult Superiors: Flag Officers and First Lords6. Difficult Inferiors: Flag Officers and their Subordinates7. Admirals and Mutineers8. Admiral in the Georgian Patronage Network9. ‘Service Interest’: Followers, Sons of the Service and the Claims of Merit10. Admirals’ Ambitions: Promotion and Employment11. Admirals’ Ambitions: Honour and Riches12. Admirals Afloat13. Admirals AshoreConclusionBibliographyIndex

An original, perceptive, empathetic and unfailingly interesting book, which deserves to find its way onto the bookshelves of anyone with a serious interest in the Royal Navy in the period of its greatest success.

John Morrow is Professor of Political Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been a Bye Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge, a visiting lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

• 1. Introduction2. The Challenge of Command3. Authority and Command4. Anxiety and Failure5. Difficult Superiors: Flag Officers and First Lords6. Difficult Inferiors: Flag Officers and their Subordinates7. Admirals and Mutineers8. Admiral in the Georgian Patronage Network9. ‘Service Interest’: Followers, Sons of the Service and the Claims of Merit10. Admirals’ Ambitions: Promotion and Employment11. Admirals’ Ambitions: Honour and Riches12. Admirals Afloat13. Admirals AshoreConclusionBibliographyIndex

An original, perceptive, empathetic and unfailingly interesting book, which deserves to find its way onto the bookshelves of anyone with a serious interest in the Royal Navy in the period of its greatest success.

John Morrow is Professor of Political Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been a Bye Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge, a visiting lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

• 1. Introduction2. The Challenge of Command3. Authority and Command4. Anxiety and Failure5. Difficult Superiors: Flag Officers and First Lords6. Difficult Inferiors: Flag Officers and their Subordinates7. Admirals and Mutineers8. Admiral in the Georgian Patronage Network9. ‘Service Interest’: Followers, Sons of the Service and the Claims of Merit10. Admirals’ Ambitions: Promotion and Employment11. Admirals’ Ambitions: Honour and Riches12. Admirals Afloat13. Admirals AshoreConclusionBibliographyIndex

An original, perceptive, empathetic and unfailingly interesting book, which deserves to find its way onto the bookshelves of anyone with a serious interest in the Royal Navy in the period of its greatest success.