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Nineteenth-century British premiers : Pitt to Rosebery

Title: Nineteenth-century British premiers : Pitt to Rosebery / Dick Leonard.
Author: Leonard, R. L. (Richard Lawrence)
Publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Description

viii, 354 pages : portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"Following his earlier survey of 20th Century British Prime Ministers (A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair), Dick Leonard turns his attention to their 19th Century predecessors, including such major figures as the Younger Pitt, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Grey, Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone. In a series of 20 biographical essays, he recounts the principal events of their political careers, the circumstances which brought them to the top of 'the greasy pole', assesses their performance as Prime Ministers, and asks what lasting influence they have had. He also recounts fascinating and often little-known facts from both their private and public lives, for example, which Prime Minister got his parents to bring up his illegitimate daughter and pass her off as his much younger sister? Which Prime Minister spent his evenings prowling the streets of London, trying to 'reform' prostitutes? Who was assassinated in the House of Commons? Who told a courtesan who tried to blackmail him 'Publish and be dammed'? And who proclaimed Queen Victoria as Empress of India?"--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

William Pitt, the Younger -- reformer turned reactionary? -- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth -- better than his reputation? -- William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville -- not quite 'all the talents' -- William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland -- Whig into Tory -- Spencer Perceval -- struck down in his prime -- Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool -- keeping the show on the road -- George Canning -- In the footsteps of Pitt -- Frederick John Robinson, Viscount Goderich, 1st Earl of Ripon -- inadequate stopgap -- Arthur Wesley (Wellesley), 1st Duke of Wellington -- military hero, political misfit? -- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey -- in the footsteps of Fox -- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne -- mentor to a young monarch -- Sir Robert Peel -- arch pragmatist or Tory traitor? -- Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell -- from whig to liberal -- Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby -- 'The brilliant chief, irregularly great' -- George Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen -- failure or scapegoat? -- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston -- master diplomat or playground bully? -- Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield -- climbing 'the greasy pole' -- William Ewart Gladstone -- from 'stern unbending Tory' to the 'people's William' -- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury -- skillful opponent of reform -- Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery -- seeking 'the Palm without the dust."

ISBN

9781403939098
1403939098
9780230209855
0230209858

LCCN

2009293867

OCLC

ocn195695789
195695789
SCSB-14103380

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library