Abstract
This stimulating biography reveals much about an obscure yet powerful leader in eighteenth-century British colonial America. James Corbett David has meticulously researched the exciting career of the fourth Earl of Dunmore, the intriguing Scottish noble John Murray, whose wife was Charlotte Stewart, a daughter of the Earl of Galloway. Chronologically and topically arranged, this highly readable biography consists of an introduction, f ve major chapters, and a conclusion. David vividly enumerates Dunmore’s paradoxical involvements with power brokers, with the oppressed, and with radicals as he strove to achieve wealth, land, and status as governor of numerous British colonies.