Search -
Verandah: Some Episodes in the Crown Colonies, 1867-89
Verandah Some Episodes in the Crown Colonies 186789 Author:James Pope-Hennessy Studies of the careers of colonial governors are rare, and of unsuccessful colonial governors rarer still. Students of the nineteenth century British Empire will therefore welcome this charmingly written and unpretentious study of Sir John Pope-Hennessy's colonial service by his grandson James Pope-Hennessy, for Sir John was not only a gover... more »nor but a notoriously bad one as judged by his contemporaries. James Pope-Hennessy makes no attempt to minimize his ancestor's failures; he seeks rather to describe colonial conditions and to show how Sir John's faults of character and temperament led him to disaster after disaster.