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The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America, by Patricia U. Bonomi. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 290 pp. $29.95.

The most serious scandal about Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury has been his treatment by historians and art curators. Admittedly, the gossip that Cornbury was a transvestite was unique among the defamations which political enemies inflicted upon some British royal governors. Patricia Bo...