David Kent, the author of this booklet, was educated at Dulwich College and Cambridge and Edinburgh universities, and taught in higher education in Britain before emigrating to Australia. By 1997 he was a senior lecturer in history at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, teaching 18th and 19th century British social history. David Kent 2 and 6 are both Australian historians, besides David Kent 8, who is another Australian.