¹ Outside parliament, Derby had spoken, or otherwise pronounced upon, the following issues in 1871: on national defence (T, 9 Jan. 1871, 50), on armed services (T, 16 Feb. 1871), on charitable relief (T, 23 Mar. 1871, 6d), on working-class housing (T, 2 June 1871, 12c), on discharged criminals (T, 26 Aug. 1871, 12c). He also spoke at Bury (T, 1 Sept. 1871, 3f), at the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society, and laid the foundation stone at Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution, (both T, 13 Sept. 1871, 8f). He spoke on Art Education at Birkenhead (T, 28 Sept. 1871, 3e), on the New Social Movement (T, 18 Oct. 1871, 6b), on national defence (T, 18 Oct. 1871, 6b), and on opening Manchester Grammar School (T, 26 Oct. 1871, 56).

² See T, 10 Jan. 1872, 10a. Derby also spoke 9 times in H. of Lords during 1871 (3 of them in ctee); he did not speak on the Ballot Bill, and avoided party controversy. His topics were Fenian prisoners, the Tichborne claimant, the Treaty of Washington, army purchase, criminal law amendment, and Abyssinia.

³ Renan, E., La Réforme Intellectuelle et Morale (1871).Google Scholar

⁴ Both were Cons, gains; the only Lib. defeat in W. Riding N. in the whole life of the constituency (1865–85).

⁵ Abraham Hayward (1801–84), man of letters.

⁶ Using a technicality to circumvent his own statute, Gladstone placed Sir R. Collier, attorney-gen., on the judicial ctee of the privy council; hence ‘Colliery explosion’.

⁷ Richard Bourke, 6th E. of Mayo (1822–72), Irish sec. 1852, 1858–9, 1866–8; gov.-gen. of India 1868–72; styled Lord Naas 1849–67.

⁸ A.D.R.W. Cochrane-Baillie (or Cochrane-Wishart-Baillie), 1st Baron Lamington (1816–90), author, member of Young England, and M.P. (Cons.) intermittently 1841–80; cr. peer 1880.

⁹ Sir J.D. Coleridge (1820–94), att.-gen. 1871–3; cr. judge 1873, 1st Baron Coleridge 1874.

¹⁰ Lord Arthur Russell (1825–92), bro. of 9th D. of Bedford, Lady Derby's bro.-in-law; M.P. (Lib.) Tavistock 1857–85.

¹¹ Stanhope's resolution condemning government abuse of its judicial patronage in the Collier case was defeated by ministers, 88–87 (H, 209, cols 375–462, Thursday 15 Feb. 1872).

¹² Henry Thomas Foley, 5th Baron Foley (1850–1905); succ. father 1869; d.s.p.

¹³ Lord Edward George Fitzalan-Howard, 1st Lord Howard of Glossop (1818–83), 2nd s. of 13th D. of Norfolk; er. peer, 1869.

¹⁴ Francis Thomas De Grey, 7th E. Cowper (1834–1905), succ. 1856; lord-lieut of Ireland 1880–2 (resigned).

¹⁵ (Sir) G. B. Matthew, min. to Brazin 1867–79.

¹⁶ Probably C. Stanley (d. 1877), ‘my unlucky cousin in Ireland. He was the best of that lot, having always kept a decent character, and not been very importunate in his demands for assistance: but like all the rest of them, he was either incapable or unwilling to do anything towards his own support.’ (D.D., 25 Apr. 1877, on his uncle Henry's eldest son.)

¹⁷ Edward White Benson, 1st head of Wellington Coll. 1859–72; archbp of Canterbury 1882–96.

¹⁸ Cf. Chandos, John, Boys Together (1984), 286–7.Google Scholar

¹⁹ Sir G. Jessel (1824–83), sol.-gen. 1871–3; master of the rolls 1873–83.

³⁰ Spencer Crompton Cavendish, 8th D. of Devonshire (1833–1908); styled Lord Harrington 1858–91; elected Lib. leader in H. of C. unopposed, Feb. 1875; p.m.g. 1868–71, Irish sec. 1871–4.

²¹ George Robinson, 1st M. of Ripon (1827–1909), chairman of Alabama commission, 1871; cr. M. 23 June 1871; in cabinet 1863–6, 1868–73, 1886, 1892–5, 1905–8; gov.-gen. of India 1880–4.

²² (Sir) E. Bulwer-Lytton, Bt, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73), novelist, cabinet minister, noted orator; cr. peer 1866.

²³ Sir John Lambert (1815–92), perm. sec. to local govt board 1871–82.

²⁴ George Stanhope, 7th E. of Chesterfield (1831–71) d. unm. of typhoid. His mother Anne, Lady Chesterfield née Weld (1802–85), widow of the 6th E. (1805–66), became after 1873 Disraeli's confidante. On her son's death in 1871, the Chesterfield estates, but not the title, passed to his sister Evelyn, Lady Carnarvon (1834–75) who m. Carnarvon in 1861. The distant cousin who inherited the title, George Philip Stanhope (1822–83) was an Ulster squire of little note.

²⁵ Fawcett's motion on Irish universities was talked out by the govt; H, cccx, 1813– (24 Apr. 1872).

²⁶ Judges and peers.

²⁷ H, cccx, 1907–12 (25 Apr. 1872). Gladstone spoke of ‘the present condition of the county franchise, which cannot long continue’ but declined to take action.

²⁸ Cf. above, 23 June 1871.

²⁹ Edward Pleydell-Bouverie (1818–89), Lib. M.P. 1844–74; pres, of poor law board, 1855–8.

³⁰ Catherine Gladstone, née Glynne (1812–1900).

³¹ William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley (1801–81), lord chanc. 1868–72.

³² Sir R. Palmer, 1st E. of Selborne (1812–95), lord chanc. 1872–4, 1880–5; cr. baron 1872, earl 1882.

³³ (Sir) John Townshend, 3rd Vt Sydney (1805–90), succ. 1831; courtier.

³⁴ Lady Blanche Balfour, née Cecil, 2nd d. of James, 2nd M. of Salisbury, by his 1st wife; m. of A.J. Balfour, premier, widow of J.M. Balfour (1820–56).

³⁵ William Russell, 8th D. of Bedford (1809–72), succ. father 1861; d. unm.; recluse in later life.

³⁶ (Francis Charles) Hastings Russell, 9th D. of Bedford (1819–91); succ. his cousin, 1872; m. Elizabeth Sackville-West (who d. 1897), sister of diarist's wife, 1844.

³⁷ (Sir) William Fairbairn (1789–1874), engineer.

³⁸ George Herbert, 13th E. of Pembroke (1850–95); s. of Sidney Herbert; succ. uncle as earl, 1862; left Eton, 1867; surprise appointment as under-sec, for war, 1874; house guest at Hughenden, Whitsun 1874; m., Aug. 1874; resigned, 1875, for ‘health reasons’ (D.N.B.), never regaining office.

³⁹ Lord Arthur Russell, M.P. Tavistock 1857–85.

⁴⁰ Viscount Amberley (1842–76), s. of premier, father of Bertrand Russell.

⁴¹ Charles Philip Yorke, 4th E. of Hardwicke (1799–1873); p.m.g. 1852, lord privy seal 1858–9 (both in cabinet). His s., also Charles Philip (1836–97), formerly styled Lord Royston, held court office 1866–8, 1874–80, though best known as ‘Champagne Charlie’, a social celebrity. The grandson, left penniless, became a sleeping partner in a firm of stockbrokers.

⁴² John Alexander Thynne, 4th M. of Bath (1831–96), succ. 1837; high churchman and tory malcontent.

⁴³ To Ballot Bill.

⁴⁴ Sir Seymour Fitzgerald (1818–85), Cons. M.P.; under-sec, for foreign affairs 1858–9; chief charity commr, 1875.

⁴⁵ Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley (1827–1903), succ. 1869; buried with Moslem rites.

⁴⁶ J.W. Maclure (1835–1901), chief exec, of cotton famine relief cttee under elder Derby, and chmn Manchester Cons. Assocn (1868–); J.S. Henry, M.P. (Cons.) S. Lanes. 1868–74; W.R. Callender (1825–76), M.P. Manchester (Cons.) 1874–5.

⁴⁷ Hornby, comptroller of Derby's household.

⁴⁸ Hale, the chief agent for W. Lancs.

⁴⁹ Lord Frederick Cavendish (1836–82), M.P. W. Riding 1865–82; Harrington's bro.; m. to Gladstone's niece; assassinated.

⁵⁰ Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (1827–1908), succ. bro. 1888; diplomatist 1847–88; U.K. minister in Washington 1881–8; when alleged intervention in U.S. elections led to resignation; bro. of diarist's wife; usually referred to by diarist as Lionel West; promoted by diarist to Madrid, 1878, from Buenos Aires (1872–8); unm., but for his irregular private life see above, 1870, n. 18; generously financed by Derby.

⁵¹ Former premier.

⁵² W.N. Massey (1809–81), Lib. M.P. 1855–63, 1872–81; financial member, govt of India, 1863–8; historian.

⁵³ On 17 Sept. 1872 the Derbys left Greenock by steamer for Minard, the W. Highland estate of the millionaire industrialist Pender. The party included the Lowes, C.P. Villiers, the orientalist Sir H. Rawlinson, Leighton the artist, and Sir W. Thomson, the engineer.

⁵⁴ Sir James Watson (1801–89), Glasgow stockbroker, lord provost of Glasgow 1871–4.

⁵⁵ Cf. Gladstone Diaries, vol. 7, cix–cx.Google Scholar

⁵⁶ Of Bedford.

⁵⁷ William Cavendish, 7th D. of Devonshire (1808–91), succ. 1858.

⁵⁸ Eliot Yorke (1843–78), 4th s. of 4th E. Hardwicke, Derby's cabinet colleague, m. (Feb. 1873) Annie, and dau. of Sir Antony de Rothschild.

⁵⁹ Rubinstein, W.D., Men of Property … (1981), 44Google Scholar, gives Loder as the 3rd largest Victorian fortune, actually bequeathed; yet not in D.N.B.

⁶⁰ Replaced by Cairns on formation of Disraeli's 1st ministry; only minister thus dropped.

⁶¹ George Campbell, 8th D. of Argyll (1823–1900), succ. 1847; Indian sec. 1868–74.

⁶² Ludovic Lindsay, 26th E. of Crawford (1847–1913); succ. father 1880.

⁶³ Daniel Douglas Home (1833–86), spiritualist.

⁶⁴ Derby's contributions in parliament in 1872 were few and non-partisan: Kew gardens, the Treaty of Washington, landownership statistics, the Indian princes of Delhi, and appellate jurisdiction. Outside parliament, he spoke on English improvidence (T, 1 Feb. 1872, 5e), on education (T, 15 Aug. 1872, 3f), on the labour question (T, 30 Aug. 1872, 3f), on the land question (T, 7 Oct. 1872, 11a) and on discharged prisoners (T, 20 Dec. 1872, 10b).