April 12, 2024
Biography of Arthur Dobbs - Governor of North Carolina 1974 - 66 - Ireland
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Up for Sale:Arthur Dobbs Esquire1689 - 1765Surveyor-General of IrelandProspector and Governor of North CarolinaBy: Desmond ClarkePublisher: The University of North Carolina PressHard copy with a dust jacket - 232 PagesCondition : used, good - dust jacket shows definite sun fading along the spine and moderate use wear - name inked on ffep - some tanning and foxing to first few pages - sound binding.About this book : This is the first and only complete account of the life and times of Arthur Dobbs, the distinguished Irish economist who was Governor of North Carolina from 1754 to 1766. Born in 1689, he was elected a Member of the Irish Parliament in 1727. A few years later he was appointed Engineer and Surveyor General of Ireland by Sir Robert Walpole. In 1729 Dobbs published his book Essays on the Trade of Ireland, one of the best economic studies of conditions in Ireland in the eighteenth century, in which he advocated among other things an improved system of land tenure. Two years later, with Thomas Prior, William Maple, Sir Thomas Molyneux, and others, he founded the Dublin Society, later incorporated as the Royal Dublin Society, which today is the oldest agricultural society in the world. A man of wide reading and relentless energy, Dobbs then became interested in the discovery of a Northwest Passage to India. He organized two
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