Witness to change: George Anson and colonial Charleston

This week we’ll be talking with Nic Butler, the historian at the Charleston County Public Library, who is researching the life of George Anson. Anson, was an officer in the British Navy who, by the time of his death in 1762, had risen to its highest rank, First Lord of the Admiralty. He had also spent 9 years in South Carolina during its time of transition from a colony governed by the Lords Proprietors to a colony of the British Crown.

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Witness to change: George Anson and colonial Charleston is an episode from Walter Edgar's Journal by South Carolina Public Radio.

This episode is 47:51 long.

This episode was published on Aug 15, 2025.

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