A Most Unsettled Man by Lily Style
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Book Title: A Most Unsettled Man
Author: Lily Style
Publication Date: July 23rd,2024
Publisher: Historium Press
Pages: 362
Genre: Historical Biography
Blurb:
George Matcham, dubbed the most unsettledman alive, was born in East India Company controlled Bombay and undertook threeepic overland treks between Asia and England before marrying the favouritesister of the not yet famous Horatio Nelson. Intimate details about George'slife have been preserved because of his close relationship with Nelson and hisfamous paramour Emma Hamilton, whose rises and falls he observed first-hand.
Packed with period press clippings andeyewitness accounts, A Most Unsettled Man provides an unprecedentedglimpse into the private life of a modest 18th century English gentleman, aswell retelling the enduring love story of Nelson and Emma from an entirely newperspective.
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Author Bio:
Lily Style is the directdescendant of famed lovers Admiral Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton and alsoNelson's sister, Kitty Matcham (because their grandchildren married).
Lily is the founder of EmmaHamilton Society and writes regularly for Nelson-related publications. She isalso a keen genealogist with an interest in piecing together real human storieslying behind dry facts.
One of these stories is ofher 4th great-grandfather, George Matcham, whose story she's traced from hismid eighteenth-century birth in East India Company controlled Bombay through tohis intimate involvement with Nelson and Emma's rise and fall.
Excerpt:
George –accompanied by unnamed friends– had no post-chaise and, likely,few pairs of silk stockings stowed in his baggage, for he travelled light, withonly a small Persian rug to sleep on.
It surely must have been worrying to traverse the Middle Eastern desert infull awareness of how murderously brutal the Arabs could be to Englishtravellers, but George pressed ever onwards, seemingly undaunted.
He noted in his journal that he was “compelled to ride on untam’d horsesat a rate of sixty or seventy miles aday, sometimes exposed to a burning sun”. With inland temperatures on the Arabianpeninsula reaching over 40°C/105°F, the near-thousand-mile crossing would havetaxed anyone, let alone an inexperienced, single-lunged traveler whose doctorthought him already as good as dead.
Author Links:
Website: https://www.lilystyle.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lilystyleauthor
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