Table of Contents

Introduction
'The Qualifications as Adorn a Gentleman and a Christian': Family, Education and Upbringing
The Grand Tourism of an English Catholic
Apostasy and Politics
Estate Management and Agricultural Innovation
Entrepreneurship and the Exploitation of Mineral Resources
Conclusion
Appendix: Pedigree of the Gascoigne Family
Bibliography

About the Author

ALEXANDER LOCK is Curator of Modern Historical Manuscripts at the British Library.

Reviews

Lucidly elucidates the tensions and complexities of English Catholic life during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
*JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, LITERATURE AND CULTURE*

A welcome and worthy addition to the expanding corpus of scholarly works which examines English Catholics within their true international context.
*JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY*

[An] impressive study.
*PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY*

Lock makes interesting contributions in this work to two important areas of recent historiography-the construction and manifestation of English Catholicism at a time during which the penal laws were still in place and of a distinct English national identity.
*CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW*