by Simon Heffer
1880 election 806–13
Albertopolis 321–2, 325–9
armed forces 481, 483–6, 490–4, 497–8
and Arnold 432, 463, 601, 607, 813
and Burdett-Coutts 649–50
and Butler 238, 240
and Carlyle 263, 813
as Chancellor 266–7, 276, 326, 328, 331, 415, 418, 471, 476, 742, 755, 768, 806
Civil Service 471, 473–5, 479
and Cole 331, 339
and Coleridge 592
Corn Laws 47, 49, 94, 95, 99, 264, 265
and Disraeli 275–9, 395–9, 806–13
divorce 517–21, 524–5
education 211, 222, 418, 425, 429, 430, 440, 458–64
Great Exhibition, the 292, 298, 308, 314
and Grenville 151
and Holloway 685–6, 688
and Kelk 371
law courts 752, 757, 758, 764
and Manning 204
and Maurice 187
media management 806
and Mill 202, 204, 380, 572
and Moberly 21
and Newman 140, 141
and Nightingale 566
and Pearson 280–4
and Peel 47, 95, 100–1, 108, 109, 265
and Prince Albert 318–20
railways 160, 713, 714, 718, 725–7
and reform 204, 380–6, 388–90, 395–9, 401–10, 505, 765–71, 794
religion 14, 137, 238, 240, 263, 517–21
rescuing prostitutes 264, 266–8, 280, 390
and Scott 742, 744, 745, 749, 750
self-flagellation/whipping 267–8
stamp duty 415
and Street 755, 759–60
universities 500, 501, 503
women’s suffrage 531, 534, 572
writings 165, 263, 265
Glyn, George 410
Goodford, Charles Old 451–2, 457
Goschen, George 495, 673
Gothic style see also Midland Hotel, St Pancras Station; Palace of Westminster
Albert Memorial 351, 369, 372
churches xiv, 143, 347
law courts 755–7
Palace of Westminster 735
Ruskin 613, 729–31
Scott 347, 348, 351, 369, 372, 743–4, 748
Street 754, 764
Waterhouse 327, 330
Government, role of see State/Government, role of
Graham, Sir James 35–6, 38, 41–3, 48, 64–5, 68, 70–2, 75, 94–5, 99–100, 123–4, 278, 279, 699
grammar schools 459
Grant Duff, Lady 229
Grant Duff, M. E. 446, 457, 458
Grantley, Lord 509, 510
Granville, Earl 163–4, 297, 299, 304, 306, 313, 315, 318, 321, 323, 333, 335, 344, 424, 649, 808–11
graves and graveyards 691, 697–700
Gray, Euphemia ‘Effie’ 611, 612, 613
Great Exhibition, the 137, 145, 263, 285–313, 357, 692
admissions 309, 312
Crystal Palace 299–305, 311–12
exhibitors 310–11
profit 313
season tickets 306–7, 309
State opening 306–8
touring 315
Great Northern Palace Company 324
Great Stink, the 261
Grenfell, Charlotte 185
Grenfell, Fanny 187
Greville, Charles 42–4, 98, 103–8, 125–8, 142, 151, 261, 272–3, 309, 341, 706
Grey, Colonel Charles 127, 692
Grey, Lord 100–1, 128–9, 294–7, 304–5, 316, 319, 321, 331–3, 344–6, 349–50, 352–67, 402, 522
Grey, Sir George 405, 518, 626, 627
Grove, Sir George 338
Guernsey, Charles 718
Gurney, Russell 538, 559
Hadfield, George 626
Hall, Sir Benjamin 707, 736–8, 740
Hamilton, Lord Claud 405
Harcourt, Sir William 440, 682
Hard Times 199–201, 467, 636
Hardwick, Philip 347, 350
Hare, J. C. 188, 189
Harrow School 3, 19, 26–9, 61, 96, 446, 448–50, 453, 455, 457, 466, 640
Hartington, Lord 406, 494–5, 808–12
Hatherley, Lord 282, 283, 495
Hawkins, Rev. Edward 5, 155–9, 162, 164
healthcare 563–7, 674
Henley, Joseph 518, 525, 799
Herbert, Sidney 100, 511, 561, 564
Heytesbury, Lord 97, 100, 101
Hibbert, John 625–6
Hicks-Beach, Michael 407, 809
Higgins, Matthew 444, 445, 471
Hill, Octavia 188, 672, 673, 675–82, 817
Hill, Rowland 290, 725
Himmelfarb, Gertrude 215, 227
History of England, Froude 185–6, 190, 577
Hitchin, women’s college at 549–50
Hobbes, Thomas 587–8
Hobhouse, Hermione 323
Hogarth, Catherine 636, 651, 652
Holloway, Thomas 683–90, 817
Holloway Sanatorium 685, 689, 690
Holyoake, George 150
homosexuality 3, 27, 28
Hopley, Thomas 455
Horner, Leonard 63, 420
horses 131, 302, 363–4, 619, 638, 700
Horticultural Society, the 324, 345, 349
hospitals xiii, 563, 650, 669, 691, 692, 712
household suffrage 396, 399 see also enfranchisement; Reform Acts; universal suffrage; votes for women
Household Words 199, 201, 634, 636, 646–7, 652
Houses of Parliament 287, 288, 292, 315, 348, 728, 735 see also Palace of Westminster
housing see also Artisans’ Dwellings Act; living conditions; lodging-houses; slums
building xiv, 76, 280–1, 668, 801–4
and Burdett-Coutts 647–8
and Carlyle 112
and Hill 677–9
and Prince Albert 76, 131–2
role of the State 801–4
Royal Commission 682
Saltaire 665
squalid xiii, 88, 131–2
and women 780
Hudson, George 720–3
Hughes, Thomas 22–3, 25, 205, 676
human waste 700
Hume, Joseph 75, 699
Hunt, Thornton 385, 389
Huxley, Thomas Henry 150, 190, 211–24, 244, 246, 325, 328, 425, 457, 531, 558–9, 608–10
Hyde Park 33, 292, 321, 394, 399, 400
Great Exhibition, the 299–303, 316, 317
Prince Albert Memorial 345, 347, 349, 356, 363, 368–9
riots 391, 587, 604, 607, 632
hypocrisies 209–10, 280
Illustrated London News 299, 310, 341
Imperial College 222, 321, 324, 338
In Memoriam 191–2, 342
India Office 739, 740, 748–9
individual responsibility 632
individualism 587, 597, 608, 615
industrial schools 423, 471, 787
infanticide 60
Ireland xii, 96, 124, 145, 179, 264, 394, 406, 444, 447, 556, 718, 774, 780, 807
Irish Bills 108, 409, 767
potato famine xiv, 60, 97–8, 101–2, 106, 144, 261, 472
Jamaica 579, 584
Jessel, George 537
Jews 14, 60, 114, 145, 252–3, 256–62, 403, 499, 649, 794
Disraeli 253, 269, 271, 579, 771
Jex-Blake, Sophia 556–7, 558
Johnson, General 49
Johnson, W. H. 189
Johnstone, Sir Harcourt 797, 798
Jowett, Benjamin 19, 166, 167, 170, 403, 435, 448, 475, 502, 544, 552
Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir James 43, 417, 424, 426, 687, 789
Kay-Shuttleworth, Ughtred 799, 800
Keate, Dr John 10, 12, 24, 450
Keble, John 139, 140, 141, 142, 169, 171, 178
Kelk, John 354, 369–71
Kimberley, Lord 495, 503
King’s College 188, 452
Kingsley, Charles v, 41, 185, 186–91, 634 see also Alton Locke; Water-Babies, T
he; Yeast
aristocracy 379–80
and Arnold 608
and Clough 158
education 205, 210, 440, 539
and Froude 179–80
Jews 114, 253
and Maurice 179, 253, 539
and the Royal Family 190
sewers 708
Thirty-nine Articles 170
Tracts for the Times 141
Krause, Dr Ernst 245–6
La Touche, Rose 611–12
Labouchere, Henry 292, 294, 302
Labour Party 408
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 213, 244, 245, 246
Lambert, John 378
Lambton, Hedworth 67–8, 69
Landseer, Sir Edwin 363, 745
Langham Place 545
Lansdowne, Lord 103, 162, 171, 173, 383, 501
lavatories 701
law courts 712, 751–64
Layard, Henry 329, 333, 358–71, 385, 394, 499, 759–62
Leatham, Edward 405, 406
leisure time 150–1, 794
Lennox, Lord Henry 626–7
Leno, John Bedford 381
Liberal party 9, 110–11, 382, 442, 499, 607, 742, 767, 772, 810
Liberalism 381, 409, 603, 608
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity 231, 377, 581, 584–5, 587–9, 605, 619–20
libraries xiv, 188, 211, 264, 328, 384, 415, 594, 666, 816
licensing 766, 769, 776
Life and Habit 243–7
life expectancy 73, 341
Lincoln, Lord 99, 100, 699
literacy xiv, 75, 414–15, 417, 711
Little Dorrit 41, 475, 637, 720
Liverpool, Lord 48, 96
livery companies 224
living conditions 61, 73, 85, 88, 112, 378–9, 563, 647 see also working conditions
living wage 116
local government 102, 709, 766, 776, 787 see also school boards
Loch, C. S. 659, 660
lodging-houses 78, 88, 129, 130, 132
London, Bishop of 36, 171, 226, 344, 782
London, Lord Mayor of 262, 295, 297
London City Mission 75, 147
London Positivist Society 20, 43
London School of Medicine for Women 556, 559
London University 217, 222, 433, 545, 546, 554, 558
Londonderry, Lord 68–9, 70, 71, 278
Lovett, William 116–17, 119
Lowe, Robert v, 413–14, 768
Albert Hall 333
armed forces 485, 495
and Arnold 599, 603–6
as Chancellor 338, 435, 750, 768
Civil Service 476–9
and Clough 166
and Cole 338–9
education 412–13, 414, 423–31, 435–6, 439, 441, 461, 462, 464, 467, 786
and Jowett 435–6
law courts 760–2
reform 382–6, 389, 391, 397
Lucan, Lord 261–2
Lucas, J. R. 218, 220
Luddism 619
lunatic asylums 685
Lyell, Charles 212–16, 220, 446
Lyndhurst, Lord 259, 511
Lyttelton, Lord 142–3, 288, 308, 450, 504
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 123, 185, 186, 252, 265, 298, 340, 378, 577, 581
MacKinnon, William 698
magazines 81, 199, 229, 577, 665 see also press
mail/post 716, 718, 725, 773 see also penny post
Malthus, Thomas 214, 472
Manchester, Duke of 76
Manchester liberals 89
Mann, Horace 146–8
Manners, Lord John 56, 57, 393, 703, 739, 740, 743, 746, 754
Manning, Cardinal/Archbishop Henry 141, 204, 233, 268
Manning, Frederick and Maria 624–5
mansion blocks 648
manufacturing areas 17, 18, 19, 34, 36, 70, 315, 418
Marlborough, Duke of 61, 260, 261
Marlborough House 315, 322, 333
Marochetti, Baron Carlo 357–9, 361–9
son of 366–8
Married Women’s Property Bill 527, 536–8, 676
Martineau, Harriet 185, 221, 530, 536, 541, 543, 813
Marx, Karl 84, 125, 149–50, 203, 633
Mary Barton 41, 115–16
Mason, Hugh 780
Matthew, H. C. G. 266, 267, 808
Maurice, Frederick Denison 179, 186–90, 205, 253, 539, 540, 542, 545, 550, 676
Mayhew, Henry 377–8
Mayne, Richard 313, 391, 392, 393, 400, 593
Maynooth Catholic seminary 95
McCrum, Michael 9, 12
McDouall, Dr Peter 42
medicines 85, 683
Melbourne, Lord 287, 509, 509–10, 512, 513, 515–16
mentally ill 669, 685
mercantile class 131, 615
Merchant Taylors’ 446, 453
meritocracy 3, 26, 476, 479, 481, 489, 499, 765
Methodism 4, 135, 144, 149, 661
Metropolitan Board of Works 706, 707, 708, 743, 802
Metropolitan Commission on Lunacy 61, 79
Metropolitan Poor Law Act (1867) 567, 669
Metropolitan Sewers Commission 701–2, 706–7
Meyrick, W. S. 454
middle class xiii, 38, 210, 380, 604
Chartism 92, 116
Corn Laws 92, 110
education 415, 430, 431, 442, 463–8, 540, 546, 570, 593–8, 610, 693
Engels on 86–7
gentry’s views on 81–2
philanthropy 378, 633, 685, 689
pursuit of perfection 600, 602–4
religion 143–4, 146, 149, 229
and the Royal Family 289–90
women 508, 540, 546, 568, 570
Midland Hotel, St Pancras Station 1, 348, 372, 750–1
Mill, James 198, 199
Mill, John Stuart v, 198–9, 227, 770, 817 see also On Liberty; Subjection of Women, The
and Arnold 605
and Carlyle 51–3, 56, 619
and Chadwick 693, 695
and Davies 545–6
death penalty 627, 629–30
and Dr Arnold 30
education 205, 221, 380, 435–7, 551
emancipation of women 377, 506, 526, 532–7, 567–73, 623
and Gladstone 572
and Kingsley 187, 190
liberty 202–4, 377
and Lowe 386
and Nightingale 532, 534, 564–5, 568
reform 377, 380, 393, 394
religion 136–8, 150, 199, 231–3
and Ruskin 202, 677
and Sidgwick 547
and Stephen 202–3, 231–2, 582–91, 620–1
writings 202–4, 567
Millais, John Everett 612, 613, 614
mills 63, 86, 199–201, 664–5, 695, 778, 779–80, 791
Milman, H. H. 280
Milnes, Richard Monckton 162, 164, 269, 326, 327, 399, 415, 560, 624
mines xiv, 66–70, 71, 420, 508, 789
Mines and Collieries Bill 69–72
missionary work 147, 639
Moberly, Rev. Dr George 21, 410, 452, 455
model towns 663–7
Moffatt, William 347
monarchy 106, 124, 287, 409, 772
Morley, John 142, 202, 204, 233, 444, 587, 608, 687
Mormons 147
Morning Post 66, 351
Morris, William 633, 753
Mulhauser, Frederick 153
Müller, Franz 627–9
Munday, James 293, 295
Mundella, Anthony 415, 778–80, 792
municipal corporations 709
Museum of Inventions 320
Museum of Manufactures 322
museums xiv, 211, 285, 314–30, 594, 816 see also under individual museum names
National Education League 440, 767
National Gallery 263, 314, 316, 318, 321, 322, 331, 344, 346, 356, 759
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) 638
National Training School for Music 336, 337, 338
National Trust 680
Natural History Museum 321, 325–6, 328, 329, 334, 338, 755, 761
natural selection 214, 244
Nemesis of Faith, The 179–84, 192, 268
Nettlefold, John Sutton 311, 710
Newcastle, Duke of 99, 101, 265, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 429
Newcastle Commission see Royal Commissions: on the education of the poorer classes
Newdegate, Charles 502
Newman, F. W. 167, 168, 542, 708
Newman, John Henry 137, 139–43, 152, 154–5, 171, 176, 178–87, 190, 229, 233 see also Tracts for the Times
Newnham 550–1, 552, 553
Newport, Monmouthshire 120
newspapers 723, 773, 777, 806 see also magazines; press; individual publication titles
night schools 649
Nightingale, Fanny 560
Nightingale, Florence 507–8, 545, 559–68, 725, 817
armed forces 479, 481–2, 489
and Clough 154, 162, 164–8
Contagious Diseases Act 536
and Gladstone 807
and Mill 532, 534, 630
and Norton 511, 516
religion 228–9
and Trevelyan 481–2
women’s suffrage 527, 530, 532, 534
Nightingale, Parthenope 508, 560
Nightingale School of Nursing 562, 564
Nineveh 358, 359, 394
nonconformism 4, 135, 149, 416, 436, 440, 443, 447, 469, 499, 501, 504, 598, 600, 605–7, 767, 787–90
North and South 82–4, 138, 152, 201
North London Collegiate School 539, 546
north of England, the 15, 42, 45, 52, 69, 117, 120, 125, 356
Northcote, Stafford 294–6, 327, 333, 403, 435, 459, 471, 473
Northcote-Trevelyan Report 476, 488, 637
Northumberland, Duke of 75, 410
Norton, Caroline 508–13, 514–15
Norton, Charles Eliot 320
Norton, George 508–10, 512–13
nursing 557, 561, 562, 563, 567
Oath of Abjuration 253–4, 258
ointments 683–4
Oliver Twist 40, 114, 634, 636, 637, 639, 647
On Liberty 202–3, 232, 377, 582, 584, 586–8, 605, 620
On the Origin of Species 214–15, 217, 220–1, 225, 226, 242, 244, 327
open spaces 697, 800
Osborne House 98, 106, 127, 191, 286, 484, 486
Owen, John Pickard 239–40
Owen, Richard 216, 217, 219, 226, 325–6, 330, 333
Owen, Robert 116, 664
Oxford Movement 14, 139–43, 152, 156, 178–80, 211, 227, 263, 728–9, 733, 815
Paisley 36, 37–8, 46
Pakington, Sir John 416, 417–18, 461–2, 563
Palace of the People, Muswell Hill 325
Palace of Westminster 738, 739, 741, 747, 755, 756
Paley, Mary 551, 552
Paley, William 240
Palgrave, Francis 165, 369
Palmer, Roundell 755
Palmer, Susannah 537
Palmerston, Lady 512
Palmerston, Lord 29, 71, 209, 278, 381, 739
Albertopolis 321–5
