Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part One. Family, Piety, and Finance
9. 1 Petty and Fitzmaurice: Lord Shelburne and his Brother 29
10. 2 Aunts, Wives, Courtiers: The Ladies of Bowood 51
11. 3 A Christian Whig: Lord Shelburne and the Latitudinarian Tradition 79
12. 4 Lord Shelburne, Finance, and Sir Francis Baring 97
13. Part Two. Politics
14. 5 Shelburne: A Chathamite in Opposition and in Government 1760–82? 117
15. 6 Shelburne and Ireland: Politician, Patriot, Absentee 141
16. 7 Lord Shelburne’s Ministry, 1782–3: ‘A Very Good List’ 161
17. 8 Shelburne, the European Powers, and the Peace of 1783 177
18. Part Three. The Bowood Circle Revisited
19. 9 ‘Opening the Door to Truth and Liberty’: Bowood’s French Connection 197
20. 10 Lord Shelburne’s Constitutional Views in 1782–3 215
21. 11 Jeremy Bentham at Bowood 233
22. 12 Shelburne and Perpetual Peace: Small States, Commerce, and International Relations within the Bowood Circle 249
23. Index 275