Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy?: The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer
Autor Antony Lentinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 apr 2013
Sir Edgar Speyer was a conspicuous figure in the financial, cultural, social and political life of Edwardian London. Head of the syndicate which financed the construction of the deep "tube lines" and "King of the Underground", he was also a connoisseur and active patron of the arts who rescued the "Prom" from collapse, enhanced the nation's musical and artistic life at his own expense and directed the funding of Captain Scott's Antarctic expeditions. Speyer and his wife, the concert violinist, Leonora Speyer lived in fabulously magnificent style. Early in the early summer of 1914 they stood at the peak of their success and celebrity in London society. Within weeks, on the outbreak of war, they became pariahs, objects of suspicion and aversion. Despite having been a naturalised British citizen for over 20 years and an ubiquitous public benefactor, Speyer found himself ostracised by society and mercilessly harried by the Northcliffe press. Under the Aliens Act of 1918, Speyer was summoned in 1921 before a judicial enquiry which found him guilty of disloyalty and disaffection and of communicating and trading with the enemy. He was stripped of his citizenship and membership of the Privy Council. Pilloried by The Times as a traitor, Speyer vehemently denied the charges, but he never returned to England thereafter and never forgot his ordeal.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781908323118
ISBN-10: 1908323116
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 10 black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: HAUS PUBLISHING
Colecția Haus Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1908323116
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 10 black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: HAUS PUBLISHING
Colecția Haus Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Antony Lentin is a Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Barrister and formerly a Professor of History at the Open University, he is the author of Lloyd George and the Lost Peace (2001), The Last Political Law Lord: Lord Sumner (1859-1934) (2009) and General Smuts (2010). He has published widely on 18th-century Russia and edited The Odes of Horace for Wordsworth Classics (1997).
Recenzii
“Beautifully written, Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy? is unlikely to be surpassed as an account of Speyer’s life.”