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E. B. Brenton

Best known for a single substantial 1823 work, this little-documented writer defended the reputation of Sir George Prevost and offered a close-up view of British North America in the aftermath of the War of 1812.

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Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart.

Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart.

by E. B. Brenton

About the author

Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm today. Surviving library and public-domain records consistently identify E. B. Brenton as the author of Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart., published in 1823.

A note preserved in the Internet Archive record for that book says the work was attributed to E. B. Brenton, Esq., who was assistant secretary to Sir George Prevost. If that attribution is correct, it helps explain the book's unusually direct and personal defense of Prevost's public and military record, especially his service in the Canadas.

Because so few reliable details about Brenton's life appear in the sources available online, the author is best remembered through this one historical volume: a detailed, partisan, and revealing account from someone apparently close to the events he described.