John Morrow is Professor of Political Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been a Bye Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge, a visiting lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

An original, perceptive, empathetic and unfailingly interesting book, which deserves to find its way onto the bookshelves of anyone with a serious interest in the Royal Navy in the period of its greatest success.

• 1. Introduction2. The Challenge of Command3. Authority and Command4. Anxiety and Failure5. Difficult Superiors: Flag Officers and First Lords6. Difficult Inferiors: Flag Officers and their Subordinates7. Admirals and Mutineers8. Admiral in the Georgian Patronage Network9. ‘Service Interest’: Followers, Sons of the Service and the Claims of Merit10. Admirals’ Ambitions: Promotion and Employment11. Admirals’ Ambitions: Honour and Riches12. Admirals Afloat13. Admirals AshoreConclusionBibliographyIndex

John Morrow is Professor of Political Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been a Bye Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge, a visiting lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

An original, perceptive, empathetic and unfailingly interesting book, which deserves to find its way onto the bookshelves of anyone with a serious interest in the Royal Navy in the period of its greatest success.

• 1. Introduction2. The Challenge of Command3. Authority and Command4. Anxiety and Failure5. Difficult Superiors: Flag Officers and First Lords6. Difficult Inferiors: Flag Officers and their Subordinates7. Admirals and Mutineers8. Admiral in the Georgian Patronage Network9. ‘Service Interest’: Followers, Sons of the Service and the Claims of Merit10. Admirals’ Ambitions: Promotion and Employment11. Admirals’ Ambitions: Honour and Riches12. Admirals Afloat13. Admirals AshoreConclusionBibliographyIndex

John Morrow is Professor of Political Studies and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has been a Bye Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge, a visiting lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge, and a visiting fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

An original, perceptive, empathetic and unfailingly interesting book, which deserves to find its way onto the bookshelves of anyone with a serious interest in the Royal Navy in the period of its greatest success.

• 1. Introduction2. The Challenge of Command3. Authority and Command4. Anxiety and Failure5. Difficult Superiors: Flag Officers and First Lords6. Difficult Inferiors: Flag Officers and their Subordinates7. Admirals and Mutineers8. Admiral in the Georgian Patronage Network9. ‘Service Interest’: Followers, Sons of the Service and the Claims of Merit10. Admirals’ Ambitions: Promotion and Employment11. Admirals’ Ambitions: Honour and Riches12. Admirals Afloat13. Admirals AshoreConclusionBibliographyIndex