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17-459: George Shee may refer to: Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet (1785–1870), Irish diplomat Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet (1758–1825), British government minister George Darell Shee (1843–1894), English judge See also [ edit ] George Archer-Shee (1895–1914), Royal Navy cadet [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with

34-709: A diplomat to Baden from 1841 to 1844. Shee also wrote articles on foreign policy for The Globe . He died without heir on 25 January 1870 in London. On 4 January 1808 Shee married his first wife, Jane, the eldest daughter of William Young of Harley Street and Hexton Place, Hertfordshire . She died in October 1832, in a boating accident. Shee then married in 1841 Sarah, third daughter of Henry Barrett of Denton , his mistress, against social convention. When Shee died, his estate including interests in County Durham mines passed to

51-564: A doctorate on the Tory Party in the eighteenth century at the University of Cambridge , supervised by John H. Plumb . She subsequently held a Research Fellowship at Girton College, a joint lectureship in history at Newnham and King's Colleges , and in 1979 was appointed the first woman Fellow at Christ's College , where she is now an Honorary Fellow. Colley's first book, In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 (1982), challenged

68-574: A long-term fellow in history at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala . She previously held chairs at Yale University and at the London School of Economics . Her work frequently approaches the past from inter-disciplinary perspectives. Colley is married to fellow historian Sir David Cannadine . Linda Colley took her first degree in history at Bristol University before completing

85-579: A nephew: he was George Edward Dering , son of Shee's sister Letitia. Shee's maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Crisp, born Marsh, is the central character in Linda Colley 's book, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh . Linda Colley Dame Linda Jane Colley (born 13 September 1949 in Chester , England ) is an expert on British, imperial and global history from 1700. She is currently Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University and

102-835: The British Library (1999–2003), the council of Tate Gallery of British Art (1999-2003), the board and trustees of Princeton University Press (2007–2012), the research committee of the British Museum (2012–2020). She writes occasionally for the London Guardian , the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books . Colley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2009 and Dame Commander of

119-552: The Shee Baronetcy , and lived at Dunmore House, Galway . He was J.P. and D.L. for Galway, and High Sheriff of County Galway in 1828. From November 1830 to 1834 Shee served in the Whig Government as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs . He was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Prussia at Berlin from 1834 to 1835, Minister Plenipotentiary to Württemberg at Stuttgart from 1835 to 1844, and

136-642: The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in 2022. In 1999, Colley was elected a Fellow of the British Academy . She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , the Royal Historical Society , and the Academia Europaea . In 2009, she was awarded a CBE for services to history and, in 2022, Colley was made a DBE . She holds seven honorary degrees. Colley has served on the board of

153-665: The referendum on Scottish independence , she was invited to deliver fifteen talks on BBC Radio 4 on the formation and fractures of the United Kingdom . These were published as Acts of Union and Disunion (2014). Her next book The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World, a global history that explores the relationship between warfare, crises and

170-663: The Mediterranean and North Africa between 1600 and 1850. Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (2002), the result of this work, used captivity narratives of different kinds to investigate the under-belly and sporadic vulnerability of this empire and its makers. She authored Namier (1988), a reappraisal of the Polish-born and Zionist historian Lewis Namier , and The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History . This

187-898: The Nehru Memorial Lecture at the London School of Economics , the Lewis Walpole Memorial Lecture at Yale University , the Carnochan Lecture at Stanford University , the President's Lecture at Princeton University in 2007, the Sir Douglas Robb Lectures at the University of Auckland in New Zealand in 2015, the Prothero Lecture for the Royal Historical Society in 2020, and the Wittrock Lecture at

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204-641: The course of the 18th and early 19th centuries. In March 1993, Colley gave a half-hour Opinions lecture televised on Channel 4 and subsequently published in The Times as "Britain must move with the times to be great again" . In 1998, Colley accepted a Senior Leverhulme Research Professorship in History at the London School of Economics . She spent the next five years researching the experiences of thousands of Britons taken captive in North America, South Asia, and

221-483: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Shee&oldid=1164534652 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet George Shee

238-659: The spread of written constitution, appeared in 2021. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages. In 1999, Colley was invited to deliver the Prime Minister's Millennium Lecture at 10 Downing Street in London . Among other scholarly and public lectures, she has delivered the Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University , the Wiles Lectures at Queen's University Belfast , Ford and Bateman Lectures at Oxford University ,

255-613: The then dominant view by arguing that the Tory Party remained active and influential during its years out of power, exploring the consequences of this for the evolution of ideas, popular politics and political action in eighteenth century England and Wales. Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 (1992), which won the Wolfson History Prize and has passed through five editions, investigated how – and how far – inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Wales came to see themselves as British over

272-632: Was named as one of the best books of 2007 by the New York Times , and was a pioneer of the technique of using the life experiences of an individual to explore trans-national and trans-continental histories. In 2008-99, Colley guest-curated an exhibition at the British Library , London , Taking Liberties , on the meanings of constitutional texts in the British past, and published an interpretative essay in connection with this: Taking Stock of Taking Liberties: A Personal View (2008). In 2014, and in advance of

289-586: Was the eldest son of Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Maria Crisp. He was educated at Sandy Mount, near Dublin , and St John's College, Cambridge , where he graduated B.A. in 1806 and M.A. in 1811. He was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1802. At Cambridge he formed a friendship with Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , and supported him at elections. There resulted in 1810 an appointment for Shee as Agent-General from volunteers and disembodied militia. This position given to him by Palmerston lasted to 1817. On 3 February 1825 Shee succeeded his father in

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