xxi+265pp. Illus. in text. The author uses previously unexplored and uncatalogued estate records and other papers left at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, to illustrate the transition from an early modern to a nearly modern aristocracy in Restoration and early Hanoverian England. The first such close exploration of two generations of a single elite British family, recounting the public careers and private lives of Horatio, the first Viscount Townshend and his son, Charles, the second Viscount, up to the rise of Walpole. Includes Select Bibliography and Index.

Genealogy Norfolk Sociology Family History