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High Minds

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by Simon Heffer


  1. RC/H/1/B/43.

  2. RA/VIC/MAIN/F/25/127.

  3. Best, p. 21.

  4. Burn, p. 16.

  5. Best, p. 167.

  6. Finer, p. 93.

  7. Ibid. p. 161.

  8. Ibid. p. 210.

  9. Ibid. p. 213.

  10. Ibid. p. 223.

  11. BL Add. MS 44374, f. 299.

  12. Hansard, Vol. 79, col. 330.

  13. Ibid. Vol. 79, col. 331.

  14. Finer, p. 231.

  15. Hansard, Vol. 79, col. 332.

  16. Ibid. Vol. 79, col. 333.

  17. Ibid. Vol. 79, cols 336–7.

  18. Ibid. Vol. 79, col. 341.

  19. Ibid. Vol. 79, col. 345.

  20. Ibid. Vol. 79, col. 353.

  21. Ibid. Vol. 79, cols 357–8.

  22. Flanders, p. 138.

  23. Hansard, Vol. 131, col. 200.

  24. Ibid. Vol. 131, col. 197.

  25. The Times, 16 July 1855, p. 12.

  26. Ibid. 19 July 1855, p. 8.

  27. Porter, p. 71.

  28. The Times, 16 June 1855, p. 5.

  29. Ibid. 18 June 1855, p. 12.

  30. Hansard, Vol. 150, col. 1921.

  31. The Times, 18 June 1858, p. 12.

  32. Ibid. Vol. 151, col. 28.

  33. The Times, 21 June 1858, p. 6.

  34. Hansard, Vol. 151, col. 421.

  35. Ibid. Vol. 151, col. 423.

  36. Ibid. Vol. 151, col. 430.

  37. The Times, 22 June 1858, p. 8.

  38. Ibid. 25 June 1858, p. 9.

  39. Hansard, Vol. 151, col. 436.

  40. Ibid. Vol. 151, col. 440.

  41. Greville, Part III, Vol. II, p. 203.

  42. BL Add. MS 41299, ff. 17–18.

  43. Porter, p. 52.

  44. Garvin, p. 54.

  45. Ibid. pp. 56–7.

  46. Ibid. p. 92.

  47. Clapham, p. 180.

  48. Ellis, p. 129.

  49. Ruskin, Lamps, p. 122.

  50. R&A, p. 20.

  51. Hansard, Vol. 77, col. 265.

  52. Ibid. Vol. 79, col. 228.

  53. Ibid. Vol. 79, col. 1069.

  54. Ibid. Vol. 78, col. 1214.

  55. Ibid. Vol. 78, col. 1215.

  56. Ibid. Vol. 85, col. 593.

  57. Ibid. Vol. 82, col. 1421.

  58. Ibid. Vol. 85, col. 1350.

  59. Ellis, p. 163.

  60. Best, p. 92.

  61. Dickens, LD, p. 675.

  62. Ellis, p. 172.

  63. Carlyle, Reminiscences, p. 85.

  64. Carlyle, Works, Vol. XX, p. 256.

  65. Ibid. p. 264.

  66. Ibid. p. 266.

  67. BL Add. MS 44754, ff. 61–3.

  68. BL Add. MS 44404, ff. 226–32.

  69. BL Add. MS 44405, f. 23.

  70. BL Add. MS 44405, ff. 53–4.

  Chapter 18: A Glimpse of the Gothic (here)

  1. Ruskin, Lamps, p. 115.

  2. Ibid. p. 213.

  3. Bloxam, p. 1.

  4. Ruskin, Crown, p. 83.

  5. Ibid. p. 84.

  6. Ibid. p. 88.

  7. Ibid. p. 89.

  8. Ibid. pp. 90–91.

  9. Ibid. p. 96.

  10. Ibid. p. 97.

  11. London 3, p. 598.

  12. Ridley, p. 518.

  13. Hansard, Vol. 147, cols 1296–7.

  14. Porter, p. 8ff.

  15. Scott, pp. 179–80.

  16. Ibid. Vol. 147, col. 1302.

  17. Ibid. Vol. 147, cols 1302–4.

  18. Ibid. Vol. 147, col. 1305.

  19. Ibid. Vol. 147, col. 1306.

  20. Ibid. Vol. 147, col. 1309.

  21. Ibid. Vol. 147, col. 1311.

  22. The Times, 26 August 1857, p. 9.

  23. Hansard, Vol. 152, cols 262–3.

  24. Scott, p. 182.

  25. Hansard, Vol. 152, col. 264.

  26. Ibid. Vol. 152, cols 266–7.

  27. Ibid. Vol. 152, cols 267–9.

  28. Ibid. Vol. 152, cols 270–2.

  29. Scott, p. 182.

  30. Ibid. p. 185.

  31. BL Add. MS 44392, ff. 66–7.

  32. BL Add. MS 48581, ff. 13–14.

  33. BL Add. MS 44392, ff. 103–4.

  34. Hansard, Vol. 155, cols 920–3.

  35. Ibid. Vol. 155, cols 926–7. The architect of the towers was actually Nicholas Hawksmoor.

  36. Ibid. Vol. 155, cols 929–30.

  37. Ibid. Vol. 155, col. 934.

  38. Ibid. Vol. 155, col. 937.

  39. BL Add. MS 44392, ff. 139–48.

  40. Scott, p. 191.

  41. Ibid. p. 192.

  42. Ibid. p. 193.

  43. The Times, 1 November 1859, p. 10.

  44. Scott, p. 197.

  45. Ibid. pp. 197–8.

  46. Ibid. p. 199.

  47. London 6, p. 265.

  48. BL Add. MS 44433, ff. 6–8.

  49. BL Add. MS 44441, ff. 198–9.

  50. Bradley, p. 46.

  51. London 4, p. 363.

  52. Brownlee, p. 69.

  53. Ibid. p. 74.

  54. Ibid. p. 76.

  55. Brownlee, p. 21.

  56. Hansard, Vol. 183, col. 184.

  57. Quarterly Review, July 1867, pp. 49–50.

  58. Ibid. p. 51.

  59. Ibid. p. 55.

  60. Ibid. p. 56.

  61. Ibid. p. 60.

  62. Ibid. p. 61.

  63. Ibid. p. 62.

  64. Brownlee, p. 138.

  65. Hansard, Vol. 193, col. 330.

  66. The Times, 19 November 1867, p. 6.

  67. The Times, 15 June 1868, p. 5.

  68. BL Add. MS 38995, ff. 233–4.

  69. BL Add. MS 44404, ff. 172–3.

  70. BL Add. MS 44415, ff. 237–40.

  71. BL Add. MS 38996, f. 3.

  72. BL Add. MS 38996, f. 160.

  73. BL Add. MS 38996, ff. 162–3.

  74. BL Add. MS 38996, f. 164–5.

  75. BL Add. MS 38896, f. 186.

  76. BL Add. MS 38996, f. 192.

  77. BL Add. MS 38996, f. 200.

  78. BL Add. MS 38996, f. 203.

  79. BL Add. MS 38996, f. 297.

  80. Hansard, Vol. 196, col. 1210.

  81. Street, p. 4.

  82. Ibid. p. 5.

  83. Ibid. pp. 6–7.

  84. Ibid. p. 9.

  85. Ibid. p. 10.

  86. Ibid. p. 12.

  87. Ibid. p. 17.

  88. Ibid. p. 21.

  89. BL Add. MS 44438, f. 325.

  Chapter 19: The Reforming Mind (here)

  1. BL Add. MS 44637, f. 73.

  2. Parkes 29/4, p. 8.

  3. Parkes 29/4 p. 9.

  4. Gladstone, Diaries, Vol. VIII, (Preface), p. lxxxiii.

  5. Garvin, p. 139.

  6. Cross, p. 19.

  7. Gladstone, Diaries, Vol. VII, (Preface), p. lxxxvii.

  8. Fulford, DC, p. 129.

  9. Anon., p. 8.

  10. Ibid. p. 10.

  11. BL Add. MS 44133, ff. 131 and 133.

  12. M&B, Vol. V, p. 284.

  13. Cecil, Vol. II, p. 50.

  14. M&B, V, p. 286.

  15. Ibid. p. 351.

  16. Russell, G., p. 253.

  17. Ibid. p. 249.

  18. Disraeli, Manchester, p. 4.

  19. Ibid. p. 6.

  20. Ibid. p. 18.

  21. Ibid. p. 19.

  22. Ibid. pp. 21–2.

  23. Ibid. pp. 22–3.

  24. Ibid. p. 25.

  25. Cross, p. 25.

  26. The Times, 24 and 26 January 1874, passim.

  27. Hansard, Vol. 218, col. 1226.

  28. Ibid. Vol. 218, col. 1228.

  29. Ibid. Vol. 218, col. 1231.

  30. Ibid. Vol. 218, col. 1759.

  31. Ibid. Vol. 218, col. 1762.

  32. Ibid. Vol. 218, col. 1771.

  33. Ibid. Vol. 218, col. 1791.

  34. Ibid. Vol. 219, col. 1416.

  35. I
bid. Vol. 219, col. 1421.

  36. Ibid. Vol. 219, cols 1424–5.

  37. Ibid. Vol. 219, col. 1426.

  38. Ibid. Vol. 219, col. 1430.

  39. Ibid. Vol. 219, col. 1463.

  40. Ibid. Vol. 219, col. 1467.

  41. Ibid. Vol. 222, col. 392.

  42. Ibid. Vol. 224, col. 438.

  43. Ibid. Vol. 224, col. 440.

  44. Ibid. Vol. 224, col. 441.

  45. BL Add. MS 51272, ff. 81–2.

  46. Arnold, Reports, p. 125.

  47. Ibid. p. 126.

  48. Hansard, Vol. 224, col. 1565.

  49. Ibid. Vol. 224, col. 1567.

  50. Ibid. Vol. 224, col. 1569.

  51. Ibid. Vol. 224, cols 1580–1.

  52. Ibid. Vol. 224, cols 1591–2.

  53. Ibid. Vol. 224, col. 1603.

  54. Ibid. Vol. 224, col. 1605.

  55. Ibid. Vol. 229, col. 931.

  56. Ibid. Vol. 229, col. 933.

  57. Ibid. Vol. 229, col. 958.

  58. Ibid. Vol. 229, col. 957.

  59. Ibid. Vol. 229, col. 1899.

  60. Ibid. Vol. 229, col. 1904.

  61. Ibid. Vol. 230, col. 31.

  62. Ibid. Vol. 230, col. 48.

  63. Ibid. Vol. 230, col. 1407.

  64. Ibid. Vol. 231, col. 566.

  65. Ibid. Vol. 237, col. 1466.

  66. Ibid. Vol. 237, col. 1469.

  67. Ibid. Vol. 238, col. 64.

  68. Ibid. Vol. 238, col. 76.

  69. Ibid. Vol. 238, cols 880–1.

  70. Ibid. Vol. 239, cols 261–2.

  71. Ibid. Vol. 239, col. 947.

  72. Ibid. Vol. 239, col. 948.

  73. Vicnius, p. 77.

  74. Hansard, Vol. 225, col. 351.

  75. Ibid. Vol. 225, col. 352.

  76. Ibid. Vol. 225, col. 357.

  77. Ibid. Vol. 225, col. 362.

  78. Ibid. Vol. 225, col. 368.

  79. Ibid. Vol. 225, col. 370.

  80. Ibid. Vol. 225, col. 401.

  81. Hansard, Vol. 218, col. 1945.

  82. Ibid. Vol. 218, col. 1969.

  83. Ibid. Vol. 222, col. 97.

  84. Ibid. Vol. 222, col. 98.

  85. Ibid. Vol. 222, col. 99.

  86. Ibid. Vol. 222, col. 100.

  87. Ibid. Vol. 222, cols 101–2.

  88. Ibid. Vol. 222, col. 104.

  89. Ibid. Vol. 222, cols 110–11.

  90. Cross, p. 34.

  91. Garvin, p. 198. Haussmann was rebuilding Paris at around the same time.

  92. M&B, Vol. V, p. 491.

  93. Ibid. p. 492ff.

  94. Fulford, DC, p. 222.

  95. M&B, Vol. V, p. 519.

  96. Hansard, Vol. 225, col. 525.

  97. M&B, Vol. VI, p. 67.

  98. BL Add. MS 45805, f. 131.

  99. Gladstone, Diaries, Vol. IX, p. 498.

  100. Ibid. p. 499.

  101. Ibid. p. 500.

  102. BL Add. MS 44349, f. 132.

  103. Gladstone, Diaries, Vol. IX, (Preface), p. lxv.

  104. Cross, p. 65.

  105. M&B, Vol. VI, p. 524.

  106. Ibid. p. 525.

  107. Ibid. p. 526.

  108. Ibid. p. 528.

  109. Ibid. p. 532.

  110. Ibid. p. 534.

  111. Ibid. p. 535.

  112. Gladstone, Diaries, Vol. IX, p. 503.

  113. BL Add. MS 44764, f. 43.

  114. M&B, Vol. VI, p. 538.

  115. BL Add. MS 44764, f. 50.

  116. M&B, Vol. VI, p. 539.

  117. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/679.

  118. BL Add. MS 44475, ff. 5–6.

  119. BL Add. MS 44438, ff. 137–8.

  120. BL Add. MS 44438, f. 207.

  121. BL Add. MS 44439, f. 13.

  122. BL Add. MS 44766, f. 82.

  123. BL Add. MS 44766, f. 175.

  124. BL Add. MS 44470, ff. 239–40.

  INDEX

  The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.

  Aberdeen, Earl of 163, 256–7, 265, 276

  Adullamites 382, 383, 389, 391, 396, 402, 586

  adult education 16, 205, 222, 594

  adultery 506, 510, 517, 523–5, 536

  agnosticism 150, 211, 212, 221

  Ainsworth, Peter 69, 70

  Albert, Prince 33, 35, 76, 122, 301–10, 817

  Albertopolis 315–23, 337–9

  Cambridge curriculum 446–7

  Corn Laws 103–4, 106–7, 285

  cult of 340–2

  Exeter Hall speech 128–32

  Great Exhibition, the 138, 285–99, 312–15

  ill health 343

  and Kingsley 190

  memorial to 331, 337–9, 343–4, 345–72

  noblesse oblige 126–7

  and Peel 100, 103–4, 771

  public opinion 287, 319, 327, 345–6

  and Tennyson 191

  Albert Hall 324, 327, 330–9, 345, 372

  Albert Memorial 330, 345–72

  Albert University 343

  Albertopolis 286, 315–33, 337–9, 342, 349, 692

  Albinolo, Felix 683–4

  alcohol 655, 665, 671, 766, 769, 775, 777 see also drunkenness

  All the Year Round 415, 634, 646

  Allingham, William 194, 614

  allotments 76, 130

  Alton Locke v, 113–14, 187, 189, 211, 249, 378, 379

  Anglicanism 4, 145, 149, 150, 153, 171, 187, 263, 348, 501

  animal cruelty 638, 788

  Anson, Augustus 491

  Anson, George 288

  Anstey, Thomas 252–6

  Anti-Corn Law Association 44, 89

  Anti-Corn Law League 37, 38, 42, 44–6, 89–94, 96, 98, 107, 109, 120

  anti-semitism see Jews

  anti-slavery movement 540, 670

  apprentices/binding 69, 97

  Argyll, Duke of 129, 282

  aristocracy 52, 55, 56 see also gentry; upper class

  and Arnold 473, 596

  and Carlyle 51, 52, 604

  and Chartism 42, 45–7, 125–6

  and Dickens 636

  and Disraeli 57, 59

  ‘intellectual’ 448, 552, 581

  and Kingsley 379–80

  snobbery about trade 82, 207, 285

  armed forces xii, xiii, 423, 452, 469, 479–99, 639, 666, 797, 799

  Army Regulation Bill 487, 489–91

  colonial 484, 485

  examination 487

  purchase system 480–2, 484, 486–8, 490–2

  reorganisation 496

  Royal Warrant 496–7

  training 481, 485, 486–7

  Armstead, Henry Hugh 358, 359, 360, 363, 369–71

  Arnold, Dr Thomas 2–4, 13, 14, 21, 23, 171, 340

  Chartism 14, 17

  and Clough 153, 155, 159

  education 15, 15–16, 19–20

  influence 19–20, 22, 25, 30, 207, 432, 775

  and Newman 140

  poor 14, 18, 50, 53, 54

  religion 4–8, 11, 13, 14, 140, 149, 173, 231, 807

  Rugby School 5–7, 9–11, 19–21, 448, 452–6

  State intervention 18

  writings 2, 13, 15, 17

  Arnold, Matthew v, xi, 2–4, 19, 22–5, 169–75, 582, 817 see also Culture and Anarchy; ‘Dover Beach’; Essays in Criticism; French Eton, A

  architecture 747–8

  and Carlyle 171, 172

  and Clough 167–9, 170–1, 173, 192–6

  and Disraeli 772

  education 414, 417, 422, 425–32, 460, 463–8, 546, 618, 783

  and Gladstone 463–4, 812–13

  Kennington demonstration 127

  ‘philistinism’ 18

  religion 153, 156–63

  schools inspector 173, 713

  and Smiles 207–8

  women 623

  writings 17, 174, 175, 192–6,
463, 593–608

  Arnold, Mrs Mary 20, 24

  Arnold, Thomas 194

  art galleries xiv, 314, 594, 689, 712, 816

  artisan class 116, 117, 146, 383

  Artisans’ Dwellings Act 776, 800, 803, 805

  Ashburton, Lady 163, 164

  Ashley, Lord 48, 60–79, 88, 97, 126, 128–30, 150, 272, 288–9, 508, 676 see also Shaftesbury, Lord

  atheism 136, 189, 198–9, 203, 232

  Attwood, Thomas 118

  Ayrton, Acton Smee 329, 394, 749, 750

  Bagehot, Walter 289, 378, 398, 772

  Balfour, Eleanor Mildred ‘Nora’ 552–3

  Balgarnie, Rev. Robert 665

  Balmoral 343, 346, 390, 395, 497, 562

  Balston, Dr Edward 449, 452, 457

  bank holidays 794

  Barnardo, Thomas 653–61, 817

  Barry, Charles (jnr) 746, 747

  Barry, Edward 351, 737–40, 748, 754, 758–60, 763

  Barry, Sir Charles 296, 299, 320, 321, 347, 348, 351, 352, 728

  Bazalgette, Joseph 702, 705, 706–7, 708, 709, 761

  Beaconsfield, Lord see Disraeli, Benjamin

  Beales, Edmond 381, 391, 392, 393, 394, 399, 400, 546, 579–80

  Bedford, Duke of 317, 542

  Bedford College 543–4

  Beer, Professor Gillian 59

  Bell, Doyne 357–60, 363, 366, 367

  Bentham, Jeremy 189, 197–8, 234, 693, 694

  Benthamism 582, 586

  Bentinck, Lord George 106, 270, 706, 754

  Beresford Hope, Alexander 734, 737, 739, 740

  Bethell, Sir Richard 254–5, 520–1

  Bidder, George Parker 713, 725

  Biddulph, Sir Thomas 360–2, 365, 367–8, 494

  Big Ben 728, 736

  Birmingham Political Union 118

  blackmail 267, 284

  Blackwell, Elizabeth 545, 549, 557

  Blake, Lord 57, 111, 271, 273, 277, 720, 803

  Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche 731

  board schools 415, 441

  Bodichon, Barbara 514, 532, 545–50, 677

  Bodley, G. F. 348, 753

  Bonham-Carter, Henry 564

  Booth, William 148, 653, 655, 661–3, 693, 817

  Bowring, Edgar 295, 315, 319, 324, 327, 333, 345–6, 349, 352, 355–6

  boys’ homes 654, 661

  Bradlaugh, Charles 232, 252, 393, 400, 607, 810

  Bradley, Simon 749, 750

  bribery 405, 406

  bridges 703, 708, 713

  brigades 650, 654

  Briggs, Asa 169, 310

  Bright, Jacob 526–8, 530, 531

  Bright, John 72, 90, 228, 562

  and Arnold 599–606

  Birmingham 710–11

  and Chamberlain 710–11

  Corn Laws 91–2, 94, 95, 98, 107, 110

  and Eden 394

  education 768

  and Gladstone 277, 476, 810

  Liberals 89, 380, 710–11, 786

  and Lowe 414

  reform 382–3, 387, 392–7, 710–11

  secret ballot 408

  Bright McLaren, Priscilla 526

  British Association 217, 223

  British Empire 3, 104, 305, 457, 639, 736, 775

  British Medical Association 433, 558

  British Museum 263, 296, 313, 320, 325, 326, 328, 359, 360, 368, 467, 617, 635

 

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