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No. 10 Downing Street, 1660-1900

Title: No. 10 Downing Street, 1660-1900 / Hector Bolitho.
Author: Bolitho, Hector, 1897-1974.
Publication: London : Hutchinson, 1957.

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Description

268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

First edition.
Bound in green cloth; stamped in gold and red. Dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Samuel Pepys and George Downing: 1623-1684 -- 3. The Prime Minister and Downing street: 1720-1732 -- 4. Walpole at no. 10: 1735-1742 -- 5. A procession of lesser men: 1742-1762 -- 6. The 'monk of Medmenham': 1762-1763 -- 7. The 'lowest point' in England's history: 1763-1782 -- 8. 'A kingdom trusted to a schoolboy's care': 1782-1801 -- 9. The first middle-class Prime Minister: 1801-1804 -- 10. Pitt: the last phase: 1804-1806 -- 11. Grenville, Portland, and Spencer Perceval: 1806-1812 -- 12. The lonely chancellor: 1812-1823 -- 13. The last of the Tories-Goderich, Canning, and Wellington: 1823-1830 -- 14. Grey and the reform bill: 1830-1834 -- 15. 1834-1846 -- 16. 1846-1898 -- 17. Disraeli and Gladstone: 1868-1880 -- 18. Ireland and the Sudan: 1880-1885 -- 19. 'Old morality', Mr. Balfour, and the 'grand old man': 1885-1894 -- 20. The reluctant Prime Minister: 1894-1895 -- 21. The end of the century: 1895-1900.

LCCN

57059069

OCLC

ocm01712032
1712032
SCSB-834068

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library