The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ^ry«*«^ 176 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. ^Xa/vrL. \ returned to America and led the life of a young manof property and leisure. Much of his time waspassed in New York, where he was a
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ^ry«*«^ 176 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA. ^Xa/vrL. \ returned to America and led the life of a young manof property and leisure. Much of his time waspassed in New York, where he was a friend DeLancey, whose niece he married. In1771 he went to England, and during the next threeyears lived in London, in intimate acquaintance withEdmund Burke and other distinguished men of thetime. As soon, however, as difficulties arose betweenthe American colonies and Great Britain, the patri-otic sentiments of Izard induced him to side with his native country and he retired to the continent. On December30, 1776, lie was appointed bythe Continental congress commis-sioner at the court of the grandduke of Tuscany. The prosecu-tion of whatever duties were at-tached to this office, however, didnot necessitate a residence in Tus-cany, and Izard remained in Parisand was prominent in the troubleswhich existed among the Amer-ican agents in that city. He wasopposed to Franklin and Deane,and sustained the pretensions ofArthur Lee. In 1780
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