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High Minds

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by Simon Heffer


  Brodie, Benjamin 219, 460

  brothels 73, 74, 130

  Brougham, Lord 302, 325, 716

  Browning, Robert 174

  Bruce, Henry 495, 536, 744

  Brunel, Sir Isambard Kingdom 299, 301, 707, 713, 719

  Buccleuch, Duke of 292, 299, 317, 399, 740

  Buckle, Henry Thomas 138

  Bulley, Ella 551, 552

  Burbidge, Thomas 158–60

  Burdett-Coutts, Angela 462, 507, 530, 543, 637–40, 647–51, 653, 654, 817

  Urania 640–7

  burial societies 471

  Burns, Mary 84

  Buss, Frances 539, 546

  Butler, Canon 235, 236, 242, 248

  Butler, Josephine 551, 799

  Butler, Samuel vi, 30, 138, 150, 204, 211–13, 221, 234–7, 241–50, 595, 642 see also Fair Haven, The; Life and Habit; Unconscious Memory; Way of all Flesh, The

  Butler, Samuel (snr) 213, 234

  Butterfield, William 729, 733–5, 755

  Byron, Lord 96, 173

  Cabinet, collective ministerial responsibility 765

  cadet corps 453

  Cairns, Lord 656, 659

  Cambridge, Duke of (Prince George) 333, 480–1, 483–4, 486, 487–9, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497

  canals and rivers 720

  Canning, George 264, 278

  Canning, Sir Stratford 358

  Canterbury, Archbishop of 26, 30, 36, 171, 307, 308, 333, 461, 475, 517, 638

  capital punishment 198, 627, 629–30, 688

  Capitalism 86, 189, 201, 614, 616, 637, 694

  Cardigan, Lord 261, 480

  Cardwell, Edward 282, 318, 399, 403, 473, 480–97, 768, 769, 774, 817

  Carlisle, Earl of 281–2

  Carlton Club 391, 723

  Carlyle, Mrs 221

  Carlyle, Thomas xiv, 50–9, 73, 270, 617–19, 652, 817 see also Chartism

  aristocracy 604

  and Arnold 171–2

  autism 51

  and Booth 662–3

  cash nexus 18, 54

  civil unrest 36, 37

  and Clough 155–65, 171

  Corn Laws 94–5

  and Dickens 636

  education 413

  feudalism 51–2, 57, 115, 377, 606, 613, 729, 731

  and Froude 153, 175, 176, 179, 182–5

  and Gladstone 263, 813

  great men 340–1

  history as propaganda 378

  housing 112

  and Huxley 216

  influence 41, 432

  Jews 114

  and Mill 51–3, 619, 677

  railways 723–4

  reform 577–80, 623

  religion 137, 199, 227, 229

  role of the State 56, 633

  and Ruskin 233, 377, 611, 613, 618, 619, 677, 680, 731

  and Smiles 206

  and Stephen 377, 578, 581–2, 589–93

  and Stephen (snr) 229

  workhouses 40, 54–5

  Young England 56

  Carnarvon, Lord 396, 397, 399, 409

  cash payment 19, 54, 55

  Catholicism 135, 137, 140, 142, 152, 175, 179, 183, 260, 264, 394, 502 see also Roman Catholicism

  cemeteries 697–700

  Central Hall of Science and Art 330, 333

  cesspits 700–1

  Chadwick, David 687, 688

  Chadwick, Edwin 73, 76, 564, 633, 693–6, 698, 699, 701

  Chadwick, Owen 136, 149, 204, 227, 229

  Chamberlain, Joseph 311, 440, 444, 709–12, 769, 804

  Charity Organisation Society, The 658, 659, 660, 662, 668–75, 678, 679, 682, 801

  charity work 266–7 see also philanthropy

  Charrington, Frederick 657–8, 659

  Charterhouse 446, 449, 450, 453, 455, 467

  Chartism xiv, 14, 43, 116–20, 150, 381, 395, 596

  and Anti-Corn Laws movement 38, 42, 46, 89, 91, 120

  and Arnold 17

  and Ashley 64

  and Booth 661

  and Carlyle 51–4

  and Christian Socialism 189

  and Disraeli 273

  Kennington demonstration 124–5, 126–7, 172, 188

  and Kingsley 187–9

  petition 18, 120–4

  and Smiles 206

  and Solly 670

  and utilitarianism 198

  Chartism 51, 52, 55, 155

  Chartist Convention Council 42

  Chelmsford, Lord 258, 259

  Cheltenham College 26, 452, 453

  Cheltenham Ladies College 539

  child custody 509, 510, 511, 526, 569, 623

  children 60, 61, 76–7, 85, 250, 341, 455

  destitute 653

  employment in agriculture 793

  employment in mines 66–71

  employment of xiv, 39, 62–6, 72, 419, 778, 779, 794, 797

  chimney-sweeps 62, 776, 780–2

  cholera xiii, 281, 561, 649, 653, 665, 669, 670, 694, 698, 700–7

  Christian Socialism 153, 186–9, 191, 676

  Church and State 14, 18, 24, 61, 136, 139, 203

  church attendance 144–6

  church building xiv, 18, 136, 146, 150, 638, 729, 731, 733, 816

  Church of England 135, 141, 143, 144, 203, 225, 263, 409, 816

  cities 691, 692, 693, 709

  City of London 253, 256, 259, 260, 294, 343, 649, 670, 800

  City of London School 452, 457

  civil marriage 515, 520

  Civil Service xii, xiii, 469–79

  admission exam 472–7

  Indian 475, 482

  physical fitness 472, 475

  promotion 469–70, 473, 478

  report 471, 472–3

  three classes of 477

  Civil Service Commission 476

  civil unrest xiii, 34, 36, 41–2, 51, 69, 402, 411, 806 see also Chartism; Corn Laws

  Clarendon, Lord 344, 351, 391, 393, 394, 398, 448–62, 476, 738, 771

  Clarendon Commission on Public Schools 8, 20, 25, 177, 222, 403, 445–6, 448–61, 462, 547

  Clayton, Mr 358, 360

  clergy 147–9, 151, 425, 672

  Clifden, Nellie 342

  Clough, Anne 159, 544, 547, 551–2, 553, 555, 817

  Clough, Arthur Hugh vi, 3, 19, 25, 153–64

  and Arnold 127, 167–9, 170–1, 173, 192–6, 593

  and Carlyle 182, 227

  and Froude 180, 182

  and Kingsley 158

  letters 101, 115, 160, 320

  and Nightingale 154, 162, 164–8, 562–4

  and Northcote 471

  and Sidgwick 547

  Thirty-nine Articles 156–7, 499

  Clough (nee Smith), Blanche 162, 164, 167, 168

  Clough, Blanche Athena 167, 551

  Cobden, Richard 46–7, 89–98, 100, 109–10, 120, 124, 292, 308, 317, 321, 390

  Cochrane, Alexander Baillie 56

  Cockburn, Sir Alexander 254, 256

  coffee houses 655, 657

  Cole, Henry 359, 424

  Albert Hall 330–9

  Albertopolis 315–19, 321, 323–5

  Crystal Palace, the 303, 316

  Great Exhibition, the 289–300, 303–4, 313, 315

  Prince Albert Memorial 343–7, 353–5, 364

  Cole, Mrs Henry 336

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 188, 227

  Coleridge, Sir John 282, 449, 500, 592

  Collini, Stefan 3, 174

  Columbia market 648–9

  commissions see Royal Commissions

  Committee of Inquiry into the Organisation of the Permanent Civil Service 474

  common good 18

  commons 697

  company law 201

  Condition of England question 52, 112, 113, 175, 378

  Congregationalists 144, 666

  Congreve, Richard 20–1, 24

  Coningsby 44, 57, 82, 270, 274–5

  conscience clause 430, 436, 438, 440, 442, 526

  Conservatism 13, 203, 206

  social 48, 598
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  Conservative Party 97, 110–11, 381, 382, 389, 395, 397, 409, 596, 770, 772, 790, 808

  Contagious Diseases Act 534, 535, 797

  cooperative movement 91, 205, 538, 670

  ‘copyism’ 754, 764

  copyright 812

  Corn Laws 88–94, 96–100

  and Ashley 72, 75

  and Disraeli 269, 272

  and Gladstone 47, 49, 94, 264, 265

  and Graham 72, 94

  and Greville 44

  and Liberals 38, 89

  and Peel 47, 49, 94, 110

  repeal of 81, 83, 97, 101–9, 110

  and the Royal Family 285

  and Smiles 206

  corporal punishment 177, 223, 455, 488

  costermongers 648

  Cowper-Temple, William 328, 553–4, 555–6, 559, 754

  Cranborne, Viscount 396–9, 403–4 see also Salisbury, Marquess of (Cranborne)

  Cranworth, Lord 514, 516, 517

  crime xiii, 73, 74, 78, 113, 124, 417, 423, 633, 665, 787, 802

  Crimean War 261, 266, 320, 470, 479, 560, 561–2, 710

  criminal law 97, 583, 766–7

  Croker, John Wilson 44–6, 109

  Cromwell, Oliver 53, 54, 171, 340, 580

  Cross, Richard Assheton 405, 491, 769, 775–80, 782, 793–5, 797, 800–5, 809

  Crossland, William Henry 687, 688

  Crystal Palace, the 295, 306–11, 313–14, 316–17, 332, 338, 356, 772, 774

  Cubitt, Thomas 291, 316

  Cubitt, William 292, 313, 304

  Cubitt, William (Lord Mayor) 343, 344

  Culture and Anarchy 3, 172, 175, 207, 431–2, 468, 593–9, 608, 812

  curriculum, school 8–9, 414, 416, 429–31, 445–9, 456–7, 459–60, 463, 610–11, 686

  Daily Telegraph 385, 389, 415, 603, 811

  Darbishire, H. A. 639, 648

  Darwin, Charles 59, 137, 150, 162, 186, 190, 191, 211–27, 237, 239, 242–8, 327, 328, 460 see also On the Origin of Species

  Darwin, Erasmus 212, 245–7, 542

  Darwin, Francis 244–7

  Davies, Emily 188, 532, 544–52, 555, 557–8, 687, 688, 817

  Davies, Llewelyn 676

  de Brakelond, Jocelin 55, 58

  de Ros, Lord 260, 461

  death and Victorian culture 341, 372

  death duties 81

  debts 635, 684, 723

  deference, end of 131, 202

  democracy xii, xiv, 52, 340, 410, 431, 505, 577, 579, 812

  Derby, Countess of 769, 771

  Derby, Lord 261, 274–9, 328, 776, 805, 807

  education 418, 462

  and Prince Albert 318, 332–5, 344, 349, 351, 354

  reform 390, 391, 393, 394–402

  Descent of Man, The 221, 227

  deserving and undeserving poor 48, 633, 656, 667, 672, 673–4, 675

  Devonshire, Duke of 303, 317, 769

  Dickens, Charles 340, 651–3, 817 see also All the Year Round; Hard Times; Household Words; Little Dorrit; Oliver Twist

  and Burdett-Coutts 637–48, 652

  and Carlyle 51

  Free Library 415

  home for prostitutes 639–47

  Jews 114, 259

  philanthropy 633–6, 667, 668

  and Prince Albert 344, 356

  public executions 624–7

  and Queen Victoria 344, 652

  religion 79, 211

  and Stephen 582

  writings 40, 41, 404, 467, 475, 720, 751

  Dickson, Colonel 392, 393

  Digby Wyatt, Matthew 291, 347, 350–1, 737, 754

  Dilke, Sir Charles 528

  Dilke, Wentworth 296, 313, 333, 435

  disease 85, 88, 694, 704, 801

  Disraeli, Benjamin v see also Coningsby; Sybil

  Albertopolis 317–18, 320, 321–2, 327, 330, 333, 339

  army 484, 490

  background 268–74, 271

  as Beaconsfield 804–5, 807–12

  as Chancellor 105, 274–7, 317, 706

  Conservative Party 110–11, 273, 403, 770–6

  and Cross 491, 775–6

  education 415, 426, 441

  free trade 94, 105, 110–11

  and Gladstone 274–5, 275–9, 484, 505, 769–70

  hypocrisy 271–3, 280

  ill health 804

  influences 54, 58, 110–11, 209, 244, 527

  Jewish heritage 253, 269, 271, 579, 771

  novels 14, 44, 57–60, 244, 269–70, 271, 274–5

  and Peel 269, 272–4

  Prince Consort Memorial Committee 344, 355

  public health 706, 801, 803

  reform 118–19, 273, 387–8, 391, 394–9, 401, 403, 407–11, 534, 579, 607, 632

  and the Royal Family 317–18, 771–2

  speeches 275, 772–4

  Young England 57–60, 269, 270, 387, 759

  divorce xii, 264, 506, 510, 513–26

  Dixon, George 439–40

  Dixon, Thomas 616, 783, 784, 785

  doctors 85, 508, 545, 555–9, 794

  domestic violence 509, 572, 622

  ‘Dover Beach’ 192–6

  drains see sewers

  drinking fountains 639

  Drummond, Henry 521, 701

  drunkenness 73, 113, 769, 777 see also alcohol

  Duncombe, Thomas 120–1, 122, 262

  Dungannon, Lord 92, 517

  East End 632–3, 647, 649, 653, 656, 662, 669, 672, 673, 676

  East India Company 266, 294

  Eastlake, Sir Charles 331, 344–7, 349–52, 356, 358

  Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act (1843) 150

  Eden, Emily 393–4

  Edinburgh, Duke of 337, 498, 775

  Edinburgh University 206, 213, 413, 555–6

  education xii, xiv, 412–68 see also adult education; curriculum, school; public schools; Ragged Schools; schools; universities

  and Arnold 163, 171, 594

  and Ashley/Shaftesbury 70–1, 73–4

  and Burdett-Coutts 650

  and Chamberlain 711

  the Church 148

  compulsory attendance 415, 419, 768, 782–4, 787, 790–1

  and Dr Arnold 15–16

  elementary 432–6, 464, 786

  endowments 433, 434

  examinations/tests 425–6, 427, 428, 467

  fees 419, 673

  free 416, 438

  grants 75, 417, 418, 420, 424–7

  and Huxley 222–4, 609–10

  local boards/districts 436, 437, 438, 439, 441, 443–4

  and Mundella 415, 778–80

  and religion 417–24, 430, 436, 438, 440–3, 711, 789, 790

  and Ruskin 617, 619

  subscriptions 420

  Education Act (1870) (Forster’s) 222, 415, 434–7, 441–3, 544, 711, 767–8, 780, 782

  Education Act (1876) 791

  Egerton, Lady 584–6, 592, 620

  Elcho, Lord 355, 530, 744, 745

  electoral reform 120, 206, 765 see also enfranchisement; Reform Acts; secret ballot

  Eliot, George 81, 114, 191, 200, 211, 545, 817 see also Felix Holt

  Elphinstone, Howard 513

  Embankment, the 329, 708

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 562

  emigration xiv, 79, 124, 163, 643, 646, 654, 663, 674

  enfranchisement 15, 16, 51, 379, 407, 526–31 see also electoral reform; household suffrage; Reform Acts; universal suffrage; votes for women

  Engels, Friedrich 84–6, 113, 144, 146, 205

  English Idealism 578

  Essays in Criticism 174, 175, 594

  Established Church 2, 122, 135–9, 144, 148, 228, 257, 263, 418, 436, 439, 499–500, 601, 731, 773, 816

  Eton 10, 12, 19, 24, 264, 444–6, 448–53, 457–8, 460, 463–6, 471, 547, 581, 640

  evolution 214, 226

  Ewart, William 314, 514, 627

  Exeter Hall 76, 128, 540

  Eyre, Edward 579, 584

  Factory Acts 63, 73, 693, 778, 779, 789, 791, 796


  factory conditions 61, 63, 73, 86, 777 see also working conditions

  fagging 177, 454, 461

  The Fair Haven 238–42, 248

  Farrer, Thomas 477, 478

  Fawcett, Henry 550, 779–80, 793, 796

  Fawcett, Millicent Garrett 550, 551, 619–24, 686, 687

  Felix Holt 81, 114–15, 404, 507

  feminism 511, 514, 545, 559, 568, 623

  Ferguson, James 762–3, 764

  Festing Jones, Henry 234, 247, 250

  feudalism xii, 1, 34, 40, 51–5, 57, 115, 143, 377, 578, 613, 729

  Fife, John 119–20

  Fison, William 432

  Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond 501, 503

  Fleay, Rev. F. S. 241–2, 250

  flogging 455, 481, 572, 584, 630

  Foley, Joseph 357, 367, 368, 369, 371, 372

  food xiii, 38, 86, 89, 92, 648, 649, 672–3, 717, 800

  foreign affairs 806–7

  Foreign Office 101, 305, 391, 472, 476–7, 736–50

  Forster, Frank 706–7

  Forster, John 340, 636, 640

  Forster, Sir Charles 794

  Forster, William 407, 408, 410, 432–40, 442, 444, 500, 651, 785, 787, 790

  Forster’s Education Act (1870) see Education Act (1870)

  Fountain, John 378–9

  Fowke, Captain Francis 322, 324, 326–8, 330–2, 334–6, 372, 755

  Fox, William 213, 417

  Francis, John 33–4

  Freake, Charles 337, 338

  free schools 444

  free trade 47, 89, 94, 102, 285, 606, 710

  French, the 108, 171, 172, 289, 291, 299, 463, 597, 685, 692, 793

  French Eton, A 463, 596

  French Revolution 44, 87, 113, 117, 118, 171, 172

  friendly societies 471

  Frost, John 120

  Froude, Archdeacon Robert 176, 177, 178, 180, 249

  Froude, James Anthony 143, 153, 175–86, 192, 268, 340, 566, 813 see also History of England; Nemesis of Faith, The

  Froude, Richard Hurrell 137, 139, 142, 176–8

  Fry, Elizabeth 432

  Fuller, Francis 291, 292, 293

  funerals 341–2

  Galton, Douglas 725–7

  Galvanism 56

  garden city movement 671

  Garling, Henry 754

  Garnett, Richard 174, 175

  Garrett, Elizabeth 545–6, 550, 557–9, 687

  Garvin, J. L. 709, 710, 804

  Gash, Norman 65, 66, 72

  Gaskell, Elizabeth 41, 82, 84, 87, 115–16, 138, 152, 200, 201, 582, 634, 646 see also Mary Barton; North and South

  general strike, calls for 42

  gentry 52, 81, 82, 125, 146, 413, 636, 669, 775 see also aristocracy; upper class

  geology 212, 213, 220, 225, 318, 328

  German influences 140, 153, 179, 190, 197, 204, 212, 286, 289, 337, 446, 460, 465, 561, 734

  girls’ homes 655–6, 661

  Girton College 549–50, 552

  Gladstone, Helen 553

  Gladstone, Mrs 264, 267, 391, 685

  Gladstone, William 61, 209, 262–8, 817

 

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