Blood beyond the rose : the George Beattie story
Graham, Barry Dominic
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Born in the autumn of 1786, in the Scottish east coastal village of St. Cyrus: the son of a salmon fisher and crofter. George Beattie would rise above his humble origins to become one of the most beloved, noble, inspiring, admired and respected figures in north-east Scottish history. He was a lawyer, a poet, a humourist, a philanthropist, a Scottish patriot, a radical, and an aspiring reformer. In 1823 a doomed love affair with a younger woman of higher social status, combined with the fatal machinations of certain socially powerful and malevolent individuals, with amoral links to Caribbean plantation slavery, would usher in the darkest of skies; producing a maelstrom which would, ultimately, consumer him entirely: effectuating an abrupt, premature and cruel end to his happiness and life.
Main title:
Blood beyond the rose : the George Beattie story / Barry Dominic Graham.
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Imprint:
Barry Dominic Graham, 2016
Collation:
260 pages ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9781533162359
Local class:
80:B/BEA
Language:
English
BRN:
2631294