{"title":"Chapter Nine. THE NAVY: Young Gentlemen at Sea","authors":"R. Muir","doi":"10.12987/9780300249545-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300249545-011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170751,"journal":{"name":"Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune","volume":"08 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127442211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter Eleven. THE ARMY","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300249545-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300249545-013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170751,"journal":{"name":"Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128171333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appendix One. Inflation in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300249545-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300249545-016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170751,"journal":{"name":"Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122035576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India","authors":"R. Muir","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300244311.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300244311.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores careers in India. India in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries appealed as a land of opportunity, especially for men who lacked first-rate connections or money at home, or who had already been disappointed in their first endeavours, or who had damaged their reputation by their imprudence. It was dangerous: most of the young men who sailed from Britain to take up positions in the service of the East India Company (EIC) in the decades around 1800 never returned home, and of those who did, only a minority came home with a fortune. Nonetheless, there was no shortage of applicants for positions in India. The Company divided its patronage carefully between its directors, with the chairman and deputy chairman each receiving a double share, and the President of the Board of Control (the politician with oversight of British interests in India) given four times the quota of an ordinary director.","PeriodicalId":170751,"journal":{"name":"Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121046135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter Five. THE LAW: Barristers","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300249545-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300249545-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170751,"journal":{"name":"Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124651993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Navy","authors":"R. Muir","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvmd861g.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvmd861g.16","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter continues the discussion on careers in the navy, particularly in terms of career progression. On the whole the navy was not a particularly rewarding career for most officers. Life at sea, especially for a midshipman, was harsh, uncomfortable, and dangerous, while there was only a slim chance of making a fortune or even of becoming sufficiently prosperous to be able to marry and support a family in the style of a gentleman unless they had some private means of their own. Yet some men found it extremely satisfying, relishing their time at sea while also enjoying enforced periods of leisure at home with their families. This was largely a matter of taste and temperament rather than patronage or connections: there were plenty of men of all ages and ranks for whom the sight of a proud man-of-war setting sail lifted their hearts and made them thank fate — or their parents — for preserving them from a life of tedium and dullness behind a lawyer's desk or in a counting house. Patriotism, the pursuit of glory and, at least during the war, the sense of performing an essential service, provided intangible rewards, while a naval officer had a respected place in British society which long continued to regard the navy as central to its identity.","PeriodicalId":170751,"journal":{"name":"Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128416258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appendix Two. Some Numbers","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300249545-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300249545-017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170751,"journal":{"name":"Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128089057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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