The Minister and his Peace: Lord Shelburne, the British Pamphlet Press and the Peace of Paris, 1783

About Rory T. Cornish

Dr Rory T. Cornish studied at the University of East Anglia Davidson College North Carolina and University College London where his graduate research was supervised by Professor Ian R. Christie FBA. Relocating to the United States in 1989 he became chair of the Department of History and Government at the University of Louisiana and later the chair of the History Department at Winthrop University. Promoted to a full professorship in 2007 he was later appointed Emeritus Professor of History by Winthrop University following his early retirement in 2014. A former member of the National Liberal Club in Whitehall he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2008 and has contributed to fifteen joint publications including The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) Thomas Francis Meagher: The Making of an Irish American (2005) Eighteenth-Century British Historians (2007) and Confederate Generals in the Western Theater (2011). This is his third book on eighteenth-century history.