Greg Brooking, Ph.D., will present the Society’s Spring Program, based on his book From Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty in Georgia. English-born James Wright was raised in Charleston, South Carolina, where his father served as chief justice of the colony. He followed in his father’s footsteps, serving South Carolina as attorney general and colonial agent to London before beginning his tenure as Georgia’s third and final royal governor in 1761. From Empire to Revolution is the first in-depth biography of Wright, whose life Dr. Brooking uses to better understand the complex struggle for power in colonial Georgia and the wider British Empire.

The program will be held at the A.W. Jones Heritage Center at 6 p.m. and will be recorded. The lecture is free for Society members and $10 for non-members.  Register here:  Spring Program Tickets.