Scotland By March 1784 Patrick had ‘been thinking ever since about buying Land, and if a Man can get a snug spot, with about…
The most significant, and in many respects disastrous, event in Shugborough’s nineteenth-century history was the great sale of 1842, held to repay the considerable debts…
Was Sir Lawrence a ‘Nabob’? In 1762 Lord Shelburne (1737-1805) informed Henry Fox (1705-1777) that Lawrence ‘Dundas, the Nabob of the North, writes me to…
‘Nabob’: The Chronology of a Concept According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word ‘nabob’ appeared in the English language around 1612, a corruption of…
The Dundas Property Empire and Nabob Taste Accommodating the East: Sir Lawrence Dundas as Nabob of the North? by Helen Clifford Please note that…
Since its development in the 1760s, the image of the nabob has figured in British caricature as a quintessentially possessive individual. The history of the…
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