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The profligate son, or, A true story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain, Nicola Phillips

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The profligate son

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Nicola Phillips

or, A true story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain

Foppish, impulsive, and philandering: William Jackson was every Georgian parent's worst nightmare. Gentlemen were expected to be honorable and virtuous, but William was the opposite, much to the dismay of his father, a well-to-do representative of the East India Company in Madras. In The Profligate Son, historian Nicola Phillips meticulously reconstructs William's life from a recently discovered family archive, describing how his youthful misbehavior reduced his family to ruin. At first, William seemed destined for a life of great fortune, but before long, he was indulging regularl

Table of Contents; List of Illustrations and Credits; A Note About Money and Financial Values; Introduction: The Profligate Heir; 1. The Sins of the Fathers: India and England 1798-1805; 2. An Improper Education: Home, School, and Sponging House, 1805-1807; 3. Lessons in Love and Life in London: London and Reading School, 1808; 4. An Officer and a Gentleman: London and Guernsey, 1809-1810; 5. Boarding the Fleet: London Debtors' Prisons, 1810-1812; 6. To the Brink of Destruction: London, 1812; 7. A Mansion of Misery: Newgate and the Old Bailey, 18128. Cheltenham and Gloucester Unmasked: Town and Jail, 1812-18139. Retribution: Woolwich Hulks, 1813; 10. The Nature of a Contagious Distemper: Transportation, 1814; 11. Of Gentlemen and Convicts: Australia, 1814-1820; 12. Ruined Suitors: Australia and England, 1820-1828; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

True story of family conflict, fashionable vice, and financial ruin in Regency Britain