David Wilkinson.

David Wilkinson. The Duke of Portland: Politics and Party in the Age of George III. fresh York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. xi, 197 $6000 ISBN 0-333-96385-7

David Wilkinson's biography of the third duke of Portland liberates his bring under rule from the shadows to which historians have generally consigned him. In earlier articles Wilkinson has at handed his reassessments of Portland's part in the removal of Earl Fitzwilliam as Ireland's viceroy, of the duke's transition from being a Whig stalwart to an ally of George III, and, greatest in number notably, of his use of clandestine service funds to facilitate

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