Augustus Stapleton

Augustus Granville Stapleton (1800 – 1880) was a British biographer and political pamphleteer.

Biography

Stapleton was educated at Rugby School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. After graduating he became private secretary to the Foreign Secretary, George Canning, and remained with him until Canning became Prime Minister in 1827. Canning died a few months later and Stapleton subsequently published an extensive biography.

Publications

The Political Life of the Right Honourable George Canning, 2 volumes, Longman, London, 1831 (second edition, 3 volumes, 1831)
George Canning and His Times, John W. Parker & Son, London, 1859

and many pamphlets and contributions to newspapers

gollark: (Nobody likes Mercury, and it's near the sun)

gollark: *Ideally* we would convert Mercury into solar panels with self-replicators of some sort, but you know.

gollark: If you wanted to actually deploy them as, you know, solar panels, you would need more space than that.

gollark: If it wasn't for horrible cost problems (apparently mostly due to regulatory badness) you could basically just get arbitrary amounts of power from nuclear.

gollark: Solar is not that "based". You require unreasonable amounts of space and solar panels.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Stapleton, Augustus Granville". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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