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Nathaniel Clements
A. P. W. Malcomson
其他書名
Government and the Governing Elite in Ireland, 1725-75
出版Four Courts, 2005
主題Biography & Autobiography / PoliticalHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / IrelandPolitical Science / World / European
ISBN185182913X9781851829132
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=baZnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Nathaniel Clements (1705-77), treasury official, politician, Dublin property developer, amateur architect, failed banker and leader of fashion, was the fifth son of a Cromwellian gentry family. He amassed a considerable fortune from office, and over the years spent some Ã?Â?Ã?£70,000 on the purchase of a c.85,000-acre estate in Leitrim, Donegal and Cavan. He was one of the richest men in Ireland at that date and although he remained a commoner, his eldest son rose to be earl of Leitrim. Clements entered the Irish treasury in 1720, at the age of 15, and died at the head of it in 1777. While English politicians and administrators came and went, Clements - one of the very few Irishmen at the heart of affairs - endured, it seemed, forever. He was, essentially, a harmonizer of British and Irish interests. This is a book about behind-the-scenes government in Ireland. It shows how one small group of hard-working members of the ruling elite dominated public finance, army administration and, to a considerable extent, the social and cultural life of the country. It also explores major issues of political morality, in an age when Clements was by no means unusual in making a fortune out of office and in which public finance and private profit were inextricably entwined.