The books, as their title indicates, are a history of British foreign policy from Lord Carmarthen to Lord Curzon (1783-1919), or from the time Britain can be said to have had a defined foreign ...

He was Member of Parliament for Carmarthen and was knighted in 1661, becoming a Lord of the Admiralty and a President of the Royal Society. From 1674-1678 he was Governor of Jamaica and took tough ...