A forger's progress : the life of Francis Greenway / Alasdair McGregor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGregor, Alasdair, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greenway, Francis Howard, 1777-1837.

Greenway, Francis Howard.

Architects--Australia--New South Wales--Biography.

Architects.

Architecture, Colonial--Australia--New South Wales.

Architecture, Colonial.

Building--Australia.

Building.

Australia.

New South Wales.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. NewSouth Publishing, 2014.

Contents:

1 Earthly reward: 800 acres and 16 cows 6

2 FH Grinway comes to London 13

3 A 'ruinous architectural triumph' 26

4 A curious and noteworthy crime 40

5 Bristol Newgate: 'white without and foul within...' 50

6 The blighted voyage of the General Hewett 59

7 A state of 'infantile imbecility' 71

8 To copy a courthouse 84

9 FH Greenway, 84 George Street 94

10 Three shillings a day and a government horse 105

11 Bright prospect: the Macquarie Tower, 1816-20 118

12 Pain and humiliation: the Barrack Square incident 135

13 A mansion for the viceroy: Government House, 1816-20 151

14 Transportation: 'an object of considerable terror' 160

15 A 'palace for horses': the Government House stables, 1817-21 169

16 Follies, fountains and fugacious toys, 1818-20 179

17 '... a neat handsome fort': colonial defences, 1816-21 193

18 '... an idea of grandeur': the Hyde Park Barracks, 1816-19 211

19 Walls of spite: St Matthew's and St Luke's, 1817-24 224

20 Feeding body and soul: St Andrew's and the market house, 1819-22 245

21 Fragments of a plan: St James' and the Supreme Court, 1819-27 256

22 A 'vile conspiracy': the Parramatta Female Factory, 1818-21 273

23 '... for the sake of a numerous family' 293

24 From George Street to the 'City of the World' 310.

ISBN:

9781742233789

1742233783

OCLC:

879593417