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Sonia P. Anderson
Every Traveller Needs a Compass, 10/2015Book Chapter
Sir John Young, later Lord Lisgar (1807–76) (Fig. 1.1), a Liberal politician who ended his career as Governor-General of Canada, was first posted overseas in 1855 as High Commissioner for the Ionian Islands (Fig. 1.2). His tenure of this office has been overshadowed by its final months in 1858–59, which overlapped with Gladstone’s mission to the Ionian Islands as High Commissioner Extraordinary. This episode is well documented, not only by official sources but also by the large amount of manuscript and printed material about the Islands which is available for research at the residential library that Gladstone founded
