Brilliantly places the glamorous but forgotten Irish proconsul Lord Dufferin in a world of contemporary myth-making and celebrity politics
Irish Times
Well equipped to convey Dufferin's importance as an Ulster icon in the imperial age, [Andrew Gailey] also handles the haut ton of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain with aplomb. He writes engagingly, a graceful turn of phrase leavened ... Read moreby the odd stiletto thrust, and he is an acute psychologist
Roy Foster, Carroll professor of Irish history at Hertford College, Oxford
A story with a terrific denouement and unexpected psychological twists, skilfully unravelled by Gailey, whose research has been prodigious
Piers Brendon
Independent
A scholarly book that will leave readers wiser about Victorian England as well as one of its most distinguished characters
Country Life
The cult of political biography is gently withering with the decline in the number of its adherents. How pleasing and unexpected, then, to read about Lord Dufferin, in a scholarly, well-researched volume, elegantly written and published by John Murray, which in its ancient regime heyday issued many such tomes. Andrew Gailey is a fine historian
David Gilmour, Literary Review
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