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Authors: Roy Jenkins
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9. The Chancellor Who Made the Job
1
Blake,
Disraeli
, p. 305.
2
Ibid
.
3
Diaries
, IV, p. 475.
4
Blake,
Disraeli
, p. 345.
5
Tilney Bassett (ed.),
Gladstone to His Wife
, p. 94.
6
Ibid
.
7
Ibid
.
8
Commons Hansard for 16 December 1852.
9
Diaries
, IV, p. 477.
10
Full correspondence published in Monypenny and Buckle,
Life of Disraeli
, III, pp. 476–80.
11
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, I, p. 451.
12
Ibid
., p. 466.
13
Diaries
, IV, p. 515.
14
Ibid
.
15
Commons Hansard for 18 April 1853.
16
Letters of Queen Victoria
, 1st Series, p. 542.
17
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, I, p. 469.
18
Shannon,
Gladstone
, p. 272.
19
Greville,
Diaries
, 3rd Series, I, p. 59.
20
Brooke and Sorenson (eds),
The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone
, I, p. 65.
21
Diaries
, IV, p. 579.
22
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, I, pp. 511–12.
10. The Decline and Fall of the Aberdeen Coalition
1
Letter from Aberdeen to Gladstone, 5 December 1856.
2
Protheroe,
Life of A. P. Stanley
, I, p. 434.
3
See the essay by V. H. H. Green, former Rector of Lincoln College in the (1993)
Illustrated History of the University of Oxford
.
4
Letters of Queen Victoria
, 3rd Series, III, p. 11.
5
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, I, p. 511.
6
Ibid
., I, p. 510.
7
Diaries
, IV, p. 621.
8
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, I, p. 540.
9
Brooke and Sorenson (eds),
The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone
, I, p. 82.
10
Diaries
., V, p. 21.
11
Ibid
.
11. Health and Wealth
12. A Short Odyssey for a British Ulysses
1
Diaries
, V, p. 279.
2
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, I, pp. 587–8.
3
G. W . E. Russell,
Gladstone
, p. 140.
4
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, I, p. 589.
5
Diaries
, V, p. 315.
6
Speech at Blackpool, 24 January 1884 (James,
Lord Randolph
Churchill, pp. 136–7.
7
Diaries
, V, p. 339.
8
Ibid
., p. 340.
9
Ibid
., p. 343.
10
Ibid
., p. 349.
11
Ibid
., p. 367.
12
Ibid
., pp. 351–8
13
Ibid
., p. 373.
13. The Hostile Partnership with Palmerston
1
Magnus,
Gladstone
, p. 144.
2
Blake,
Disraeli
, p. 396.
3
Southgate,
The Most English Minister
, p. 453.
4
Ibid
., p. 452.
5
Parker,
Life and Letters of Sir James Graham
, II, p. 388.
6
Diaries
, V, p. 399.
7
Maxwell,
Life of Clarendon
, II, p. 186.
8
Bailey (ed.),
The Diary of Lady Frederick Cavendish
, I, pp. 92–3.
9
Diaries
, V, p. 402.
10
Guedalla,
Palmerston
, p. 453.
11
Diaries
, V, p. 410.
12
Ibid
., p. 410n.
13
Republished in 1879 in
Gleanings of Past Years
, pp. 131–79.
14
Diaries
, V, p. 418.
15
Ibid
., pp. 434–5.
16
Ibid
., VI, p. 47.
17
Guedalla,
Palmerston
, p. 453.
18
Guedalla (ed.),
Gladstone and Palmerston
, p. 126.
14. God’s Vicar in the Treasury
1
Diaries
, V, p. 410.
2
Ibid
., p. 415.
3
Ibid
., p. 421.
4
Hinde,
Richard Cobden
, p. 285.
5
Diaries
, V, p. 424.
6
Hinde,
Richard Cobden
, pp. 285–95.
7
Guedalla (ed.),
Gladstone and Palmerston
, pp. 115–18.
8
Ibid
., p. 123.
9
Ibid
., p. 124.
10
Diaries
, V, p. 463.
11
Ibid
., p. 462.
12
Guedalla (ed.),
Gladstone and Palmerston
, p. 123.
13
Diaries
, V, p. 464.
14
Tilney Bassett (ed.),
Gladstone’s Speeches
, pp. 288–90.
15
Ibid
., p. 273.
16
Diaries
, V, p. 485.
17
Ibid
., p. 495.
18
Ibid
., p. 506.
19
Ibid
., p. 541.
15. The People’s William
1
Diaries
, VI, p. 51.
2
Ibid
., p. 163.
3
Ibid
., p. 179.
4
Ibid
., p. 24.
5
Guedalla (ed.),
Gladstone and Palmerston
, pp. 169–70.
6
Ibid
., p. 176.
7
Diaries
, VI, p. 48.
8
Guedalla (ed.),
Gladstone and Palmerston
, pp. 176–9.
9
Shannon,
Gladstone
, I, p. 423.
10
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, p. 79.
11
The Times
, 9 October 1862.
12
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, p. 80.
13
Brooke and Sorenson (eds),
The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone
, I, pp. 133–4 and 250
14
Magnus,
Gladstone
, p. 152.
15
Diaries
, VI, pp. 152–3.
16
Ibid
., p. 153.
17
Gladstone’s ‘Secret Account Book’, finally tabulated in 1897, the last year of his life.
18
Diaries
, VI, p. 199.
19
Tilney Bassett (ed.),
Gladstone to His Wife
, pp. 160–3.
20
Diaries
, VI, p. 170.
21
Ibid
., p. 246.
22
Ibid
., p. 127.
23
Ibid
., p. 167.
24
Ibid
., p. 18.
25
Commons Hansard for 11 May 1864.
26
Guedalla (ed.),
Gladstone and Palmerston
, pp. 279–87.
27
Ibid
., p. 318.
28
Ibid
., pp. 297–8.
29
Ibid
., p. 300.
30
Diaries
, VI, pp. 326–32.
31
Guedalla (ed.),
Gladstone and Palmerston
, p. 335.
32
Diaries
, VI, p. 370.
33
Guedalla (ed.),
Gladstone and Palmerston
, p. 348.
16. Disraeli’s Foil
1
The Diary of Charles Adams
, p. 368.
2
Diaries
, VI, p. 102.
3
Tilney Bassett (ed.),
Gladstone’s Speeches
, p. 359.
4
Brooke and Sorenson (eds),
The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone
, I, p. 92.
5
Diaries
, VI, pp. 449–50.
6
Magnus,
Gladstone
, p. 184.
7
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, pp. 217–18.
8
Diaries
, VI, p. 472.
9
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, p. 216.
10
Blake,
Disraeli
, p. 542
11
Ibid
., p. 477.
12
Ibid
., p. 458.
13
Brooke and Sorenson (eds),
The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone
, I, p. 94.
14
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, pp. 222–3.
15
Diaries
, VI, p. 588.
16
Ibid
., p. 511.
17
Ibid
., p. 513.
18
Blake,
Disraeli
, p. 421.
19
Holland,
Life of Wilberforce
, III, p. 227.
20
Diaries
, VI, p. 521.
21
Brooke and Sorenson (eds),
The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone
, I, p. 95.
22
Blake,
Disraeli
, p. 421.
23
Diaries
, VI, p. 536.
24
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, pp. 172–3.
25
Diaries
, VI, p. 566.
26
Ibid
., pp. 565–79.
27
Ibid
., p. 586.
17. ‘My Mission is to Pacify Ireland’
1
Hammond,
Gladstone and the Irish Nation
, pp. 68–9.
2
Tilney Bassett (ed.),
Gladstone to His Wife
, p. 124.
3
Hammond,
Gladstone and the Irish Nation
, p. 79.
4
Ibid
., p. 80.
5
Diaries
, VI, p. 588.
6
Blake,
Disraeli
, p. 502.
7
Diaries
, VI, p. 628.
8
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, p. 250.
9
Diaries
, VI, p. 638.
10
Article by Ashley in the
National Review
for June 1898.
11
Memorandum by General Charles Grey included in
Letters of Queen Victoria
,2nd Series, I, p. 560.
12
Diaries
, VI, p. 641.
13
Ibid
., p. 645.
14
Ibid
.
18. A Commanding Prime Minister
1
Diaries
, VI, p. 654.
2
Ibid
., pp. 655–6.
3
Ibid
., VII, p. 4.
4
Ibid
., p. 14.
5
Ibid
., p. 15–16.
6
Ibid
., p. 22.
7
Ibid
., p. 20.
8
Ibid
., pp. 14 and 18–19.
9
Ibid
., p. 175.
10
Ibid
., p. 101.
11
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, p. 279.
12
Letter from Temple to Sir T. Acland, 12 March 1869.
13
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, p. 264.
14
Diaries
, VII, p. 43.
15
Ibid
., p. 78.
16
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, p. 271.
17
Diaries
, VII, p. 104.
18
Ibid
., p. 106.
19
Ibid
., p. 114.
20
Ibid
., p. 120.
21
Ibid
., p. 118.
22
Davidson,
Life of Archbishop Tait
, II, p. 45.
23
Diaries
, VII, pp. 126–7.
24
Ibid
., p. 114.
25
Ibid
., p. 141.
26
Ibid
., p. 155.
27
Ibid
., p. 175.
28
Ibid
., p. 141.
29
Ibid
., p. 152.
30
Ibid
., p. 167.
31
Ibid
., p. 171.
32
Ibid
., p. 158.
33
Ibid
., p. 197.
34
Matthew,
Gladstone 1809–1874
.
35
Diaries
, VII, p. 206.
36
Ibid
., p. 208.
19. Irish Land and European War
1
Hammond,
Gladstone and the Irish Nation
, p. 93.
2
Ibid
., p. 107.
3
Ibid
., p. 98.
4
Diaries
, VII, p. 228.
5
Guedalla (ed.),
The Queen and Mr Gladstone
, p. 24.
6
Ibid
., p. 408.
7
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, p. 292.
8
Ibid
.
9
Diaries
, VII, p. 301.
10
Ibid
., p. 309.
11
Matthew,
Gladstone 1809–1874
, p. 203.
12
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, p. 313.
13
Ibid
.
14
Guedalla (ed.),
The Queen and Mr Gladstone
, pp. 283–94.
15
Jenkins,
Sir Charles Dilke
, p. 60.
16
Morley,
Life of Gladstone
, II, p. 328.
17
Diaries
, VII, p. 372.
18
Gleanings of Past Years
, IV, pp. 197–259.