Diary of Death 1819

A werewolf? Maybe. In August of 1819, Charles Lennox, 4th duke of Richmond, Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, began the last leg of a summer-long tour of inspection of fortifications, military settlements and naval establishments in Upper and Lower Canada. Along the way, he was stricken by a mysterious illness which transformed him in strange ways and gave him a kind of superhuman power. His weird and agonizing death was chronicled by two of the duke’s closest aides, Lt.-Col. Francis Cockburn and Maj. George Bowles, veteran campaigners who found themselves powerless to prevent his untimely demise. Their diaries were hushed up by the British authorities to prevent the startling details becoming public. Did the Third Duke of Richmond become a werewolf? The Diary of Death 1819 finally tells the gripping story of the last days of Charles Lennox, the "finest formed man in England."