Lawson Lies Still in the Thames: The Extraordinary Life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson

By Gill Blanchard

At the beginning of his diary, on 1st January 1660, Samuel Pepys noted that 'Lawson lies still in the River'. A mere two weeks before, amid rioting in the streets of London and with Parliament under the control of the army, Vice-Admiral John Lawson had taken a fleet of twenty-two warships into the Thames and, in defence of Parliament, blockaded the city. Despite being a staunch republican, Lawson would later aid the Restoration of Charles II, and died from wounds received in battle during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665. This biography charts the tumultuous life and times of an ordinary seaman born in Scarborough who would come to play a major role in the English Civil War, the Restoration, the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the start of the transformation of England into a global political and economic power in the seventeenth century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445661233
• ISBN13: 9781445661230
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages