| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

The "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the Origins of the American Revolution. By Colin Nicolson. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001. xiv, 326 pp. $50.00, ISBN 1-55553-463-5.)

Although orphaned at the age of five, Francis Bernard (1712–1779) possessed enough family connections, later amplified by marriage to Amelia Offley, to enter Oxford University, then the Inns of Court, and eventually to win offices in church and local Lincolnshire government as befitted a member of the lesser landless gentry. In the first of eight meticulously researched and crafted chapters on the career of Sir Francis, Colin Nicolson immerses readers in Bernard's gradual ascension up the latticed webs of patronage and influence that constituted local and national government in Georgian England. Learned (he donated 215 books to Harvard College in 1764) and thoughtful (he wrote the "Principles of Law & Polity" prescribing reforms in colonial administration before attempting taxation), Bernard was nonetheless ill prepared to deal with the less hierarchical character of Massachusetts when he assumed the governorship in 1763. . . .

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