Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha made a career in public life at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900 (1844–1900).
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born in 1844. His recorded nationality is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The nineteenth century professionalised nearly everything: salaried posts, formal training, and audiences large enough to sustain a career.
The record gives his occupations as philatelist, politician and aristocrat.
Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.
Working from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha died in 1900 at the age of 56. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Worked as philatelist, politician and aristocrat
