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A Character of the Trimmer

Being a Short Life of the First Marquis of Halifax

H C Foxcroft author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Jan '15

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This book, first published in 1946, provides a biography of the statesman and writer Sir George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax.

Helen Charlotte Foxcroft (1865–1950) was a renowned British historian and literary editor. In this book, which was first published in 1946, Foxcroft provides a concise biography of the statesman and writer Sir George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax, also known as 'The Trimmer'.Helen Charlotte Foxcroft (1865–1950) was a renowned British historian and literary editor. In this book, which was first published in 1946, Foxcroft provides a concise biography of the statesman and writer Sir George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax, also known as 'The Trimmer'. The text condenses and updates material taken from an earlier two-volume work, The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile (1898). This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the life of Savile and British history.

ISBN: 9781107455641

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm

Weight: 470g

366 pages