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Observations on the Prevailing Abuses in the British Army
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  • Thomas Erskine, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Charles Ross; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
    Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
    / Early life and career

    His unsigned pamphlet, Observations on the Prevailing Abuses in the British Army (1772), gained a wide audience. Finding opportunities for advancement in the British army no more favourable than in the navy and encouraged by the friendly interest of Lord Mansfield, Erskine decided to enter the law. He…

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    His unsigned pamphlet, Observations on the Prevailing Abuses in the British Army (1772), gained a wide audience. Finding opportunities for advancement in the British army no more favourable than in the navy and encouraged by the friendly interest of Lord Mansfield, Erskine decided to enter the law. He…

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