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Overview: George Edwardson is the 'nom de plume' of George Westropp, a former Fleet Street financial journalist and writer of naval and military historical novels and fly fishing and children's books. Based in the South England, he is an amateur historian and genealogist.
Genre: Fiction> General Fiction/Classics


The Cork Captain
The Cork Captain follows the career of the fighting soldier Michael Roberts Westropp through turbulent times in Ireland, the West Indies and the start of the American War of Independence.
He turns his back on a life in the counting house of his father’s business in Cork and enlists as an ensign in the 18th Regiment of Foot and is soon faced with the Whiteboys rebellion in the West of Ireland. Ensign Westropp is next posted to the West Indies to secure the valuable islands from French attack while there is unease from slave revolts and the perils of yellow fever decimating the ranks of his new regiment the 70th Foot.
The American colonies are in revolt, and he finds himself in Boston. Massachusetts with the 63rd Foot under siege from George Washington’s colonial troops.
Home in Cork, Westropp is called on to confront Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen’s 1798 rebellion. The uprising tests the military, civil and commercial life of the City, where he hopes rise to the highest levels of commerce and Government.

The Shannon Shark
King Charles 1 is dead and still the English Civil War blights parts of England.
Cornet Mountifort Westropp of Colonel Twisleton’s Regiment of Horse is called upon again, this time to quell the Leveller Mutinies of 1649.
The Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell has decided to punish the Catholics and Royalists in Ireland for their atrocities against the English Protestant settlers during the 1641 uprising. Westropp is part of a great invading New Model Army which lands in Dublin to secure Munster for Parliament as a first step to subdue the whole island.
The campaign includes capturing Drogheda and Wexford before the march on Limerick.
Westropp returns to life in the West of Ireland, initially suppressing the remnants of the Royalist and Confederation Irish around the River Shannon.
As Comptroller of the Port of Limerick, his future looks assured – until the armies of the Duke of York and King William meet on the banks of the River Boyne. Will his life’s work as a soldier and administrator be for nought?