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William Wickham, Master Spy: The Secret War Against the French Revolution (The Enlightenment World: Political and Intellectual History of the Long Eighteenth Century)
Michael Durey
Hardcover. Pickering & Chatto Ltd 2009-09-15.
ISBN 9781851969838
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William Wickham (1761-1840) was Britain's master spy on the Continent for more than five years during the French Revolutionary wars. He was the creator and head of a small and highly organized secret service unit, and was sent on missions to Europe and Ireland. He is the only important political figure of the period not to have been the subject of a modern biography. Durey sees in Wickham a peculiarly eighteenth-century, whiggish patriotism: he served king and country, but he also bore loyalty to a political family that was based around his Christ Church connections
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