Arthur Burns is Professor of Modern British History at King’s College London where he teaches 18th and 19th-century British political and social History. He is also Vice-Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He chief research interests lie in the later 18th and early 19th centuries, and in particular in the history of the Church of England both as an institution and as a profession. He is a director of the important online historical resource, The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (www.theclergydatabase.org.uk) and has written widely on the intersection of the church and the wider political culture in later Hanoverian Britain. He was one of the editors of the award-winning St Paul’s: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004 (Yale, 2004), and is currently working on a study of the Christian Socialist tradition at Thaxted in Essex. Arthur Burns is currently Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society with particular responsibility for Education.
Frederick John Robinson was the younger son of the 2nd Baron Grantham, and was raised mainly by his mother, the daughter of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, after his father died when he was three years old. He was educated …
...who was executed for high treason in 1803 after being accused of plotting both the seizure of the Tower of London and Bank of England and the assassination of George...
William Wyndham Grenville was born on 24 October 1759 in Buckinghamshire, the youngest son of an earlier Prime Minister, George Grenville, and cousin of a future one, William Pitt. He...
...1801 over the issue of Catholic Emancipation, both Pitt and George III identified Addington as the obvious successor. In office he declared the pursuit of peace as his government’s priority,...
William Pitt (the younger) was born on 28 May 1759 at Hayes Place, Kent, the second son of William Pitt (the elder), later 1st Earl of Chatham and himself Prime Minister. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge at the age …
...forced upon him, and in summer 1783 let it be known that he would welcome opposition to the ministry’s bill to reform the East India Company; its parliamentary defeat gave...
...to aide-de-camp to George III. In the same year he became MP for Wycombe, and was elected to the Irish Parliament the following year. Ambitious and combative In May 1761...
...the American War of Independence meant that it soon rose by £75 million. Taxing issues overseas Such talents, along with significant changes in the administration of India, Ireland and Canada,...