Life and Times of Thomas, Lord Coningsby

Pat Rogers is Distinguished University Professor and DeBartolo Chair in the Humanities, University of South Florida, USA. The author or editor of over forty books Rogers has held teaching posts at the universities of Cambridge, London, Wales, and Bristol, and been a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and a visiting fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. Currently a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the School for Advanced Study, University of London, he is former President of the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and currently a Vice-President of the Johnson Society of London. His recent works include Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne (OUP, 2005) and in 2006 he produced the first full scholarly version of Pride and Prejudice for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen as well as editing The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, and serving as associate editor of The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

• Introduction; 1 Roots: A Family of Great Note in these Parts; 2 A Tainted Inheritance: Ferdinando Gorges; 3 The Vice-Roy: The Boyne, Gafney and Ranelagh; 4 The Greasy Pole: Godolphin's Ministry and the Trial of Dr Sacheverell; 5 Border Disputes: The Harleys and Herefordshire; 6 The Secret Committee: Matthew Prior; 7 The Bishop and his Ass: Francis Atterbury; 8 Bubbling Up: Chandos and the Lord Chancellor; 9 A Precious Bird in the Cage: The Tower and Sir George Caswall; 10 Rejected Addresses: The Duchess and Lady Catherine; 11 Banks of Wye: Lady Scudamore, Cider, and the Man of Ross; 12 Sir Balaam: Lord Bathurst and Pope's Epistle; Epilogue; References; Sources; Index.