Research Catalog

Title

No. 10 Downing Street, a house in history.

Author

Minney, R. J. (Rubeigh James), 1895-1979.

Publication

Boston, Little, Brown [1963]

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Details

Description

xvii, 483 pages illustrations, portraits, maps, plans; 22 cm

Alternative Title

Number 10 Downing Street.

Subject

• Number 10 Downing Street (London, England)
• Prime ministers > Dwellings > Great Britain
• Prime ministers > Dwellings
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 445-[452]

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Before Downing street -- George Downing -- Downing street -- Number 10 -- Early residents -- Sir Robert Walpole -- Walpole at no. 10 -- His immediate successors -- Sir Francis Dashwood -- Revolt of the American colonies -- Lord North and the war of independence -- The younger Pitt -- The Napoleonic war -- The doctor moves in -- The return of Pitt -- His tow unworthy successors -- Spencer Perceval -- The unremembered chancellor -- 'Prosperity Robinson' -- Canning's short reign -- Wellington movies in -- Grey and the reform bill -- Melbourne, then Peel -- Used only for offices -- Palmerston's finest hours -- Disraeli and Galdstone -- 'Jingoism' -- Gladstone's unhappy return -- The home rule battle -- W.H. Smith moves in -- The Boer war -- The great liberal years -- Battle with the lords -- The prime minister's lodgings -- Lloyd George and the first world war -- The fall of Lloyd George -- First labour government -- The return of Baldwin -- The national government -- Baldwin and the abdication -- Second world war and Churchill -- Attlee's six years -- Eden and Suez -- The new no. 10 -- Prime ministers and others who have lived at no. 10.

LCCN

63008315

OCLC

• ocm00376147
• 376147
• SCSB-826569

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library