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In this seminar, Harry Lewis will explore how Sir Charles Wogan came to propose wide-reaching reforms of Spanish maritime trade in the Caribbean. Sir Charles was an Irish Jacobite committed to the restoration of the Catholic branch of the Stuart royal family. He served as an officer in the Spanish army and proposed reforms to the Spanish fleet system as part of a wider effort to limit British imperial expansion in the Caribbean and to secure a Stuart restoration. This seminar will focus on a copy of Wogan’s proposals held in Cambridge University Library and will assess this as part of the wider Anglo-Spanish conflict over maritime trade in the Caribbean.
About the speaker
Harry Lewis is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and holds the William R. McFarlane Scholarship. His recently submitted thesis, entitled ‘The Jacobite Diaspora, the Stuart Court and the Greater Caribbean, 1688-c.1750’, explores how Jacobites influenced, and were influenced by, the development of European empires in the Caribbean.
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