TY - BOOK ID - 135189860 TI - Footnotes to history : the personal realm of John Wilson Croker, secretary to the admiralty (1809-1830), a group family PY - 2015 SN - 178284208X 1782842101 9781782842095 1782842098 9781782842088 9781782842101 9781845197469 PB - East Sussex, England : Sussex Academic Press, DB - UniCat KW - Conservatism KW - History KW - Croker, John Wilson, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135189860 AB - Footnotes to History brings a novel focus to social history. It is a study of a "group family" - an extended family closely structured though marriages that were either internal or with trusted associates. This kind of social entity evolved down the centuries, reaching its zenith in the early nineteenth century. The family portrayed, the Pennells, provides a supreme example of such a united body. John Wilson Croker, his two half-nieces and his best friend all married into it. The size of this "group family" gave ample scope for marriages between cousins. Most men in it gained prestigious appoi ER -