Book Synopsis
The first half of the book offers a history of my Lennard and Barrett ancestors from John Lennard, "the founder of the family," in the 16th century to Thomas Barrett-Lennard, Lord Dacre, in the 18th century. John Lennard lived through the reigns of the legendary Tudor monarchs during the English Renaissance. After John's death in late Elizabethan times, the book tracks John's descendants through the Jacobean era, the English Civil Wars, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution. The second half of the book follows my Barrett-Lennard line from Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Baronet of Belhus, to the arrival in Vancouver, British Columbia, of my paternal grandparents and the birth of my father. The book ends with chapters on my father and his siblings.