6. The German Reception of an Irish Eccentric

Portrait of Thomas Amory by Joseph Blackburn, photograph by Okita2 (2012), Wikimedia, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Amory_1760_Joseph_Blackburn.jpg Apart from his published works—of which The Life of John Buncle, Esq. was easily the most successful—little is known of Thomas Amory, described in the Dictionary of National Biography as an ‘eccentric writer’. The son of one Councillor Amory who accompanied William III to Ireland and acquired extensive prop...