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have diagnosed his trouble as porphyria, a deficiency condition,
rule out all forms of psychiatric disturbance, and investigate,
with becoming reticence, the recurrence of this hereditary
disease up and down the royal line.486 Despite doubts expressed
in several quarters (see EHR 84, 8o5f.3 a note written before
the appearance of the big book), the case is winning wide-
spread adherence. Persons not quite in the front rank also re-
ceive attention. Brooke completed Namier's last piece of
writing, a rehabilitation of that misfortunate politician, Charles
Townsend.487 Guttridge succeeds only in proving that there is
little worth saying about the early days of Lord Rockingham,488
while the unpleasing George Germaine has, surprisingly,
found two not very convincing defenders.489 One of them did
even worse by the much maligned North, a man who badly
needs a good new life.490 Francis Dashwood, whose mixture of
parliamentary and dilettante activities make him (if one may
so put it) a typical oddity, is coolly handled by Kemp.491
Rather more interesting are two high-born radicals, the duke
of Richmond (whose correspondence has been published with
a long biographical introduction)492 and Shelburne whom
Nonis treats very seriously as a reformer, though he evades the
problems posed by a personality which more than any other

48* Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter, George III and the Mad

Business. L: Allen Lane The Penguin Press: 1969. Pp. xv, 407.
*87 Lewis B. Namier and John Brooke, Charles Townsend. L: Macmil-

lan: 1964. Pp. ix, 198. Rev: EHR 8r, 4oaf. -See also Peter G. D.

Thomas, 'Charles Townsend and American taxation", EHR 83

(1968), 33-51-
*88 G* H. Guttridge, The Earl? Career of Lord Rockingham, 1730 -1765.

Berkeley: U of California P; 1952. Pp. vii, 54.
48* Alan Valentine, Lord George Germaine. L: OUP: 1962. Pp. x, 534.

Rev: EHR 79, 423^; AHR 68, I037f.-Gerald S. Brown, The

AWKTWW Secretory: the colonial policy of Lord George Germain, 1775 -

1778. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P: 1963, Pp. ix, 246. Rev: EHR

% 1044^
*** Alan Valentine, Lord North, 2 vols. Norman: U of Oklahoma P:

1967. Pp. xi, 568; viia 517. Rev: HJ 12, i8of.; Hist 53, 442.
4f J Betty Kemp, Sir Francis Dashwood: an eighteenth-century independent.

L: Macmillan: 1967. Pp. ix, 210. Rev: EHR 83, 618.
ttt Alison G. Olsen, The Radical Duke: career and correspondence of

Charles Lennox, ^rd <&& of Richmond. L: OUP: 1961. Pp. 262.