Fifty Years of My Life

Résumé du livre

George Thomas Keppel was born 13 June 1799 and christened in the Parish of Marylebone. He spent his early childhood at Elden Hall, Suffolk. He attended school at Westminster and then in 1815 was commissioned as an ensign in the Fourteenth regiment. He writes extensively of his experiences in the military, fighting the French, Waterloo, in India, etc. He succeeded his brother and became the sixth earl of Albemarle in 1851.