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Gladstone: A Biography

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by Roy Jenkins


  1 The Diary of Charles Adams, p. 368.

  2 Diaries, VI, p. 102.

  3 Tilney Bassett (ed.), Gladstone’s Speeches, p. 359.

  4 Brooke and Sorenson (eds), The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone, I, p. 92.

  5 Diaries, VI, pp. 449–50.

  6 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 184.

  7 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, pp. 217–18.

  8 Diaries, VI, p. 472.

  9 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 216.

  10 Blake, Disraeli, p. 542

  11 Ibid., p. 477.

  12 Ibid., p. 458.

  13 Brooke and Sorenson (eds), The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone, I, p. 94.

  14 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, pp. 222–3.

  15 Diaries, VI, p. 588.

  16 Ibid., p. 511.

  17 Ibid., p. 513.

  18 Blake, Disraeli, p. 421.

  19 Holland, Life of Wilberforce, III, p. 227.

  20 Diaries, VI, p. 521.

  21 Brooke and Sorenson (eds), The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone, I, p. 95.

  22 Blake, Disraeli, p. 421.

  23 Diaries, VI, p. 536.

  24 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, pp. 172–3.

  25 Diaries, VI, p. 566.

  26 Ibid., pp. 565–79.

  27 Ibid., p. 586.

  17. ‘My Mission is to Pacify Ireland’

  1 Hammond, Gladstone and the Irish Nation, pp. 68–9.

  2 Tilney Bassett (ed.), Gladstone to His Wife, p. 124.

  3 Hammond, Gladstone and the Irish Nation, p. 79.

  4 Ibid., p. 80.

  5 Diaries, VI, p. 588.

  6 Blake, Disraeli, p. 502.

  7 Diaries, VI, p. 628.

  8 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 250.

  9 Diaries, VI, p. 638.

  10 Article by Ashley in the National Review for June 1898.

  11 Memorandum by General Charles Grey included in Letters of Queen Victoria,2nd Series, I, p. 560.

  12 Diaries, VI, p. 641.

  13 Ibid., p. 645.

  14 Ibid.

  18. A Commanding Prime Minister

  1 Diaries, VI, p. 654.

  2 Ibid., pp. 655–6.

  3 Ibid., VII, p. 4.

  4 Ibid., p. 14.

  5 Ibid., p. 15–16.

  6 Ibid., p. 22.

  7 Ibid., p. 20.

  8 Ibid., pp. 14 and 18–19.

  9 Ibid., p. 175.

  10 Ibid., p. 101.

  11 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 279.

  12 Letter from Temple to Sir T. Acland, 12 March 1869.

  13 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 264.

  14 Diaries, VII, p. 43.

  15 Ibid., p. 78.

  16 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 271.

  17 Diaries, VII, p. 104.

  18 Ibid., p. 106.

  19 Ibid., p. 114.

  20 Ibid., p. 120.

  21 Ibid., p. 118.

  22 Davidson, Life of Archbishop Tait, II, p. 45.

  23 Diaries, VII, pp. 126–7.

  24 Ibid., p. 114.

  25 Ibid., p. 141.

  26 Ibid., p. 155.

  27 Ibid., p. 175.

  28 Ibid., p. 141.

  29 Ibid., p. 152.

  30 Ibid., p. 167.

  31 Ibid., p. 171.

  32 Ibid., p. 158.

  33 Ibid., p. 197.

  34 Matthew, Gladstone 1809–1874.

  35 Diaries, VII, p. 206.

  36 Ibid., p. 208.

  19. Irish Land and European War

  1 Hammond, Gladstone and the Irish Nation, p. 93.

  2 Ibid., p. 107.

  3 Ibid., p. 98.

  4 Diaries, VII, p. 228.

  5 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, p. 24.

  6 Ibid., p. 408.

  7 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 292.

  8 Ibid.

  9 Diaries, VII, p. 301.

  10 Ibid., p. 309.

  11 Matthew, Gladstone 1809–1874, p. 203.

  12 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 313.

  13 Ibid.

  14 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, pp. 283–94.

  15 Jenkins, Sir Charles Dilke, p. 60.

  16 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 328.

  17 Diaries, VII, p. 372.

  18 Gleanings of Past Years, IV, pp. 197–259.

  20. Sovereign and Prime Minister

  1 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, p. 8.

  2 Ibid., pp. 14–15.

  3 Ibid., pp. 207–8.

  4 Ibid., p. 210.

  5 Ibid., p. 215.

  6 Ibid., p. 255–6.

  7 Ibid., p. 260.

  8 Ibid.

  9 Ibid., p. 261.

  10 Ibid., p. 315.

  11 Ibid., p. 296.

  12 Ibid., p. 271.

  13 Ibid., p. 267.

  14 Ibid., p. 315.

  15 Ibid., pp. 317–18.

  16 Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I., p. 584.

  17 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, pp. 328–30.

  18 Ibid., p. 333.

  19 Ibid., pp. 333–4.

  20 Diaries, VIII, p. 40.

  21 Ibid., p. 42.

  22 Tilney Bassett (ed.), Gladstone to His Wife, p. 192.

  23 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, p. 66.

  24 Ibid., p. 353.

  25 Ibid., p. 360.

  26 Magnus, King Edward the Seventh, p. 117.

  27 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, p. 347.

  28 Ibid., p. 381.

  29 Ibid., p. 382.

  30 Ibid., p. 383.

  31 Ibid., p. 391.

  32 Ibid., p. 397.

  33 Ibid., p. 399.

  34 Ibid., p. 400.

  21. ‘Ever and Anon the Dark Rumbling of the Sea’

  1 Diaries, VII, p. 517.

  2 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, p. 373.

  3 Ibid., p. 372.

  4 Balfour, Chapters of Autobiography, p. 70.

  5 Diaries, VIII, p. 219.

  6 Tilney Bassett (ed.), Gladstone to His Wife, pp. 195–6.

  7 Diaries, VIII, pp. 219–20.

  8 Letters of Lord Aberdare, I, p. 351.

  9 Diaries, VIII, p. 255.

  10 Commons Hansard for 13 February 1873.

  11 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, pp. 408–9.

  12 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 445.

  13 Ibid., p. 444.

  14 Diaries, VIII. p. 302.

  15 Ibid., p. 300.

  16 Brooke and Sorenson (eds), The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone, I,p. 112.

  17 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, pp. 417–18.

  22. Defeat and Retirement

  1 Diaries, VIII, p. 368.

  2 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, p. 427.

  3 Diaries, VIII, p. 368.

  4 Ibid., p. 442.

  5 Article in Fortnightly Review, October 1874.

  6 Matthew, Gladstone 1809–1874, p. 223n.

  7 Diaries, VIII, p. 451.

  8 Ibid., pp. 449–53.

  9 Ibid., p. 456.

  10 Ibid., p. 461.

  11 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, pp. 444–5.

  12 Diaries, VIII, p. 464.

  13 Ibid., p. 456.

  14 Ibid., p. 470.

  15 Ibid., p. 472.

  16 Blake, Disraeli, p. 550.

  17 Chadwick, The Victorian Church, II, p. 36.

  18 Diaries, VIII, p. 518.

  19 Gleanings of Past Years, VI, pp. 127–8.

  20 Diaries, VIII, p. 526.

  23. The Temporary Withdrawal

  1 Diaries, IX, p. 29.

  2 Ibid., p. 141.

  3 Ibid., p. 29.

  4 Ibid., p. 115.

  5 Tilney Bassett (ed.), Gladstone to His Wife, p. 212.

  6 Disraeli’s letter to the Queen, 15 March 1875.

  7 Diaries, IX, p. 265.

  8 Ibid., p. 64.

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p; 9 Ibid., p. 147n.

  10 Ibid., p. 77.

  11 Ibid., p. 71.

  12 Ibid., p. 261.

  13 Ibid., p. 138.

  24. ‘Of All the Bulgarian Horrors Perhaps the Greatest’

  1 Diaries, IX, p. 150.

  2 Ibid., p. 151.

  3 Ibid., p. 152.

  4 Monypenny and Buckle, Life of Disraeli, VI, p. 60.

  5 Blake, Disraeli, p. 603.

  6 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 554.

  7 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 243.

  8 Commons Hansard for 10 July 1876.

  9 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 245.

  10 Monypenny and Buckle, Life of Disraeli, VI, pp. 356–7.

  11 Gleanings, I, p. 204.

  12 Commons Hansard for 12 August 1876.

  13 Diaries, IX, p. 200.

  14 Ibid., p. 297.

  15 Ibid., p. 410.

  16 Ibid., p. 415.

  17 Ibid., p. 199.

  18 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 562.

  19 Diaries, IX, p. 212.

  20 Ibid., p. 214.

  21 Ibid., p. 216.

  22 Commons Hansard for 20 May 1898.

  23 Diaries, IX, pp. 223–4.

  24 Ibid., p. 240.

  25. Midlothian Beckons

  1 Diaries, IX, p. 333.

  2 Ibid., p. 334.

  3 Ibid., p. 440.

  4 Ibid., p. 421.

  5 Ibid., p. 307.

  6 Ibid., p. 421.

  7 Ibid., p. 319.

  8 Blake, Disraeli, pp. 705–6.

  9 Matthew, Gladstone 1875–1898, p. 47.

  10 Diaries, IX, p. 386.

  11 Tilney Bassett (ed.), Gladstone’s Speeches, p. 555.

  12 Diaries, IX, p. 371.

  13 Ibid., p. 373.

  14 Ibid., p. 374.

  15 Ibid., p. 435.

  16 Ibid., p. 439.

  17 Ibid., p. 446.

  18 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 587.

  19 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 261.

  20 Diaries, IX, p. 461.

  21 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 595.

  22 Diaries, IX, p. 463.

  23 Ibid., p. 283.

  24 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 582.

  25 Foster, Lord Randolph Churchill, p. 127.

  26 Diaries, IX, p. 464.

  27 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, p. 591.

  28 Diaries, IX, p. 464.

  29 Ibid., p. 466.

  30 Bailey (ed.), The Diaries of Lady Frederick Cavendish, II, p. 241.

  31 Jackson, The Last of the Whigs, p. 262.

  32 Ibid., p. 99.

  33 Diaries, IX, p. 471.

  34 Morley, Life of Gladstone, II, pp. 610–11.

  35 Ibid., p. 498.

  36 Ibid., pp. 499–501.

  37 Ibid., p. 502.

  38 Ibid., p. 501.

  26. Victory, Where Are Thy Fruits?

  1 Ponsonby, Henry Ponsonby, p. 184.

  2 Jackson, The Last of the Whigs, p. 112.

  3 Letters of Queen Victoria, 2nd Series, III, p. 80.

  4 Memorandum written by Gladstone, 22 April 1880, printed in Diaries, IX, pp. 504–5.

  5 Letters of Queen Victoria, 2nd Series, III, p. 84.

  6 Diaries, IX, p. 506.

  7 Ibid., p. 507.

  8 Letters of Queen Victoria, 2nd Series, III, p. 85.

  9 Dilke Papers, 43934, 149.

  10 Garvin and Amery, Life of Joseph Chamberlain, I, p. 301.

  11 Hammond, Gladstone and the Irish Nation, p. 328.

  12 Jenkins, Sir Charles Dilke, p. 168.

  13 Diaries, IX, p. 526.

  14 Ibid., p. 557.

  15 Letters of Queen Victoria, 2nd Series, III, p. 116.

  16 Morley, Life of Gladstone, III, pp. 19–20.

  17 Diaries, IX, p. 559.

  18 Ibid., p. 562.

  19 Ibid., p. 564.

  20 Ibid.

  27. Gladstone Becomes the Grand Old Man

  1 1879 letter from Dilke to Mrs Mark Pattison (his future wife).

  2 Diaries, IX, p. 655.

  3 Ibid., X, p. 2.

  4 Ibid., p. 52.

  5 Thorold, The Life of Henry Labouche`re, p. 144.

  6 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, I, pp. 190–1.

  7 Matthew, Gladstone 1875–1898, p. 278.

  8 Diaries, XI, pp. 656–7.

  9 Ibid., pp. 659–60.

  10 Matthew, Gladstone 1875–1898, p. 279.

  11 Diaries, X, p. 24.

  12 Ibid., p. 94.

  13 Ibid., p. 396.

  14 Ibid., p. 168.

  15 Ibid., p. 386.

  16 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 308.

  17 Letters of Queen Victoria, 2nd Series, III, p. 241.

  18 Ibid., p. 395.

  19 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, II, pp. 486–7.

  20 Commons Hansard for 16 May 1882.

  21 Diaries, X, p. 264.

  22 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, I,p. 310.

  23 Dilke Papers, 43926 30.

  24 Jenkins, Sir Charles Dilke, p. 169.

  28. The Cloud in the West Darkens

  1 Garvin and Amery, Life of Joseph Chamberlain, I, p. 332.

  2 Speech at the Cloth Hall banquet, Leeds, 8 October 1881.

  3 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, II, pp. 454, 558 and 701.

  4 Interview with R. Barry O’Brien for O’Brien’s 1898 biography of Parnell. The circumstances of the interview and Gladstone’s words are in pp. 353–67 of the second volume of the work.

  5 Ibid., pp. 357–8.

  6 Recorded in Asquith’s diary for 16 October 1891, published in his Fifty Years of Parliament (1926).

  7 1891 conversation with Henry Harrison, recorded in Harrison’s Parnell Vindicated.

  8 Jenkins, Sir Charles Dilke, pp. 204–5.

  29. The Third Reform Bill

  1 Martin, Tennyson, pp. 540–1.

  2 Gwynn and Tuckwell, Life of Sir Charles Dilke, II, p. 63.

  3 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, II, p. 500.

  4 Ibid., p. 567.

  5 Ibid., pp. 516–17.

  6 Diaries, XI, p. 144.

  7 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, II, p. 644.

  8 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, p. 617

  9 Letters of Queen Victoria, 2nd Series, III, p. 539.

  10 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, p. 623.

  11 Diaries, XI, p. 193.

  12 Jenkins, Sir Charles Dilke, p. 19.

  13 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, II, p. 750.

  30. Murderer of Gordon?

  1 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, I, p. 65.

  2 Commons Hansard for 14 June 1882.

  3 Diaries, X, pp. 290–1.

  4 Ibid., p. 292.

  5 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, I, p. 340.

  6 Diaries, X, p. 335.

  7 Ibid., XI, p. 218.

  8 Matthew, Gladstone 1875–1898, pp. 135–6.

  9 Pollock, Gordon: The Man Behind the Legend, pp. 139–40.

  10 Jenkins, Sir Charles Dilke, p. 179.

  11 Ramm (ed.), Political Correspondence of Mr Gladstone and Lord Granville, II, p. 150.

  12 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, II, p. 545.

  13 Ramm (ed.), Political Correspondence of Mr Gladstone and Lord Granville, II, p. 151.

  14 Dilke Papers, British Museum, 43938 76.

  15 Ibid., 43926 30.

  16 Diaries, XI, p. 182.

  17 Pollock, Gordon: The Man Behind the Legend, p. 301.

  18 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, II, p. 788.

  19 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, II, p. 326.

  20 Bahlmann (ed.), The Di
ary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, II, p. 789.

  21 Guedalla (ed.), The Queen and Mr Gladstone, II, p. 326.

  22 Diaries, XI, p. 289.

  23 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1880–1885, II, p. 797.

  24 Diaries, XI, p. 354.

  25 Ibid., p. 362.

  31. Slow Road to Damascus

  1 Diaries, XI, p. 359.

  2 Matthew, Gladstone 1875–1898, p. 286.

  3 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1885–1906, p. 17.

  4 Diaries, XI, p. 378.

  5 Ibid., p. 456.

  6 Ramm (ed.), Political Correspondence of Mr Gladstone and Lord Granville, II,p. 414.

  7 Ibid.

  8 Diaries, XI, p. 443.

  9 Ibid., pp. 447–8.

  10 Ibid., p. 455.

  11 Letters of Queen Victoria, 2nd Series, III, p. 711.

  12 Quoted in Hammond, Gladstone and the Irish Nation, pp. 449–50.

  13 Ibid., p. 445.

  14 Diaries, XI, p. 448.

  15 Ibid., p. 450n.

  16 Hammond, Gladstone and the Irish Nation, p. 440.

  17 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1885–1906,p. 14.

  18 The whole letter is reproduced in Appendix I of Diaries, XI, pp. 663–7.

  19 This paper is published in full in ibid., pp. 429–30.

  20 Parnell’s paper is given in Hammond, Gladstone and the Irish Nation, pp. 422–3.

  21 Diaries, XI, p. 425.

  22 Ibid., p. 411.

  32. Schism and Failure

  1 Brooke and Sorenson (eds), The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone, I, p. 110.

  2 Diaries, XI, p. 484.

  3 Letters of Queen Victoria, 3rd Series, I, p. 34.

  4 Ibid., p. 35.

  5 Diaries, XI, p. 485.

  6 Letters of Queen Victoria, 3rd Series, I, p. 36.

  7 Garvin and Amery, Life of Joseph Chamberlain, II, p. 172.

  8 Dilke Papers, British Museum, 43927 25.

  9 Ramm (ed.), Political Correspondence of Mr Gladstone and Lord Granville, II, p. 445.

  10 Marsh, Joseph Chamberlain, p. 222.

  11 Hammond, Gladstone and the Irish Nation, p. 493.

  12 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1885–1906, pp. 33–4.

  13 Diaries, XI, p. 526.

  14 Tilney Bassett (ed.), Gladstone’s Speeches, p. 644.

  15 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1885–1906, p. 34.

  16 Diaries, XI, p. 549.

  17 Bahlmann (ed.), The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton 1885–1906, p. 36.

  18 Diaries, XI, p. 567.

  19 Ibid., p. 581.

  20 Ibid., p. 585.

  21 Ibid., p. 583.

  22 Ibid., pp. 579–80.

  23 Ibid., p. 592.

  24 Memorandum by Gladstone quoted in Morley, Life of Gladstone, III, pp. 347–8.

  25 Letters of Queen Victoria, 3rd Series, I, pp. 168–9.

  26 Diaries, XI, p. 583.

 

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