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The Dukes

Brian Masters

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English
Pimlico
02 March 2001
Biography: royalty; History; Social classes; Family history, tracing ancestors
'An excellent book. I found it completely fascinating, with new and delightful information on every page' - Auberon Waugh

The origins of the non-royal dukes in the British peerage divide nicely into Tudor looters, Royal bastards, opportunist generals, territorial, metropolitan or Scottish magnates. Lloyd George said that a duke, fully equipped, cost more than a dreadnought to maintain and with their palaces, possessions and retinues, they are nearly all splendid. Some of them are, of course, now poor; some of them have great wealth; some of them hit every headline and others are obscure. But within each duchy, Brian Masters tells the story of quaint grandees determined to survive.

The Dukes is an essential guide that provides vital biographical information and explores the history of the dukes in unprecedented depth. This revised edition includes new information which was not available on first publication, and brings up to date the accounts of families whose titles have passed to a subsequent generation in the intervening years.
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Imprint:   Pimlico
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   538g
ISBN:   9780712667241
ISBN 10:   0712667245
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Brian Masters has written on a wide range of subjects, from dukes to gorillas to murderers. His account of the addictive killer Dennis Nilsen, Killing for Company, won the Gold Dagger Award in 1985, and he followed this with studies of Jeffrey Dahmer and Rosemary West. In between, there were biographies of John Aspinall, Georgina Duchess of Devonshire, Marie Corelli, and E. F. Benson, as well as a book on India and a celebration of Great Hostesses (such as Cunard and Colefax). His book on moral philosophy was entitled The Evil That Men Do. He also writes for the Sunday papers and reviews for the Spectator, as well as organising a Grand Tour of Europe for American students every autumn, which he accompanies, lecturing on wine.

Reviews for The Dukes

Excellent mightily researched and readable. Absorbing through so many pages Scotsman Splendidly painstaking and enormously readable -- Arthur Marshall New Statesman With a keen sense of precedence and an admirable grasp of the British peerage system, he darts from duke to duke... racing up and down the genealogies The Economist


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