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nodbear and I started researching the life of George Cadogan our first port of call was the print archives at google books and archive.org where we came across an out of print title by Robert Pearman called The Cadogan’s At War 1783 - 1864: The Third Earl Cadogan His Family. Pearman’s book is fascinating and frustrating in equal measure. While it goes into the marriages, divorces, affairs, inheritance of property and titles of the extensive and intermarried Cadogan, Wellesley and Churchill families it glosses over several pivotal events in George’s life and omits one significant incident, the Crocodile court martial, entirely. Although the author quotes many letters from associates of the family, beside a few official reports to the Admiralty, there are no private letters from George himself and the chapters that deal with his early naval service on the Indefatigable and the Impetueux borrow heavily from the familiar accounts of Pellew’s biographers Edward Osler and C. Northcote Parkinson. Ultimately The Cadogans at War raises more questions than it answers but it is still an invaluable source.
( George Cadogan early life and naval career )
nodbear and I started researching the life of George Cadogan our first port of call was the print archives at google books and archive.org where we came across an out of print title by Robert Pearman called The Cadogan’s At War 1783 - 1864: The Third Earl Cadogan His Family. Pearman’s book is fascinating and frustrating in equal measure. While it goes into the marriages, divorces, affairs, inheritance of property and titles of the extensive and intermarried Cadogan, Wellesley and Churchill families it glosses over several pivotal events in George’s life and omits one significant incident, the Crocodile court martial, entirely. Although the author quotes many letters from associates of the family, beside a few official reports to the Admiralty, there are no private letters from George himself and the chapters that deal with his early naval service on the Indefatigable and the Impetueux borrow heavily from the familiar accounts of Pellew’s biographers Edward Osler and C. Northcote Parkinson. Ultimately The Cadogans at War raises more questions than it answers but it is still an invaluable source.( George Cadogan early life and naval career )
