Author:William Petty-Fitzmaurice

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William Petty-Fitzmaurice
(1737–1805)

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Lord Shelburne; Anglo-Irish politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1782 to 1783. A reformist Whig who was a personal friend of Jeremy Bentham and a promoter of the Smithian doctrine of free trade, as Prime Minister he concluded the treaties ending the American Revolutionary War.

Works

Edited by Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice in Life of William, Earl of Shelburne (2nd ed., 1912):
- Paper on Sepulchral Monuments (1791), originally published in The Gentleman's Magazine
- Autobiographic papers (1800–1801)
- "Lord Shelburne on Men and Things", undated fragments on politics and economics

Works about Petty-Fitzmaurice

A Defence of the Right Honorable the Earl of Shelburne by Dennis O'Bryen (7th ed., 1783), sarcastic satire
Life of William, Earl of Shelburne by Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice (2nd ed., 1912)

Articles

"FitzMaurice, William," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
"Petty, William (1737-1805)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Lansdowne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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