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Nathaniel William Wraxall. Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1st Baronet (8 April 1751 – 7 November 1831) was an English author and politician.
27 de mai. de 2020 · The English traveller, Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, when visiting Vienna in 1779, scribbled down some notes in his diary on the Hungarian coronation of Maria Theresia, based on the reminiscences of people who attended the ceremony in 1741 at Pressburg (today Bratislava, Slovakia).
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Study Questions. No study questions. During the whole month of November, the concurring accounts which were transmitted to Government, enumerating Lord Cornwallis’s embarrassments and the positions taken by the enemy, augmented the anxiety of the Cabinet.
Though derided and slighted by his contemporaries, Wraxall can be said to have had the last laugh, for his Historical Memoirs and Posthumous Memoirs, covering political events between 1772 and 1789, have ensured that he is still remembered.
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, baronet, the author of historical memoirs, was the only son of Nathaniel Wraxall (1725-1781), who married in 1749 Anne (d. 1800), daughter of William Thornhill of Bristol, and great-niece of Sir James Thornhill, was born in Queen's Square, Bristol, on 8 April 1751, and ‘was educated in his native city.’.
He left Parliament in 1794, and died 7 Nov. 1831. Wraxall achieved little distinction in the House of Commons, but his memoirs have made his name well known. The first instalment, Historical Memoirs of my own Time, published in 1815, covers the period from 1772 to 1784.
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall was an English traveller and memoirist. His "Historical Memoirs of my Own Time, from 1772 to 1784" (2 vols.).
