¹ Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford (1788–1861) m. Anna-Maria Stanhope, 1808.

² Rev. T. Kerchever Arnold (1800–53), rector of Lyndon, Rutlandshire, 1839–53: miscellaneous writer.

³ Rev. Edward Hayes Pickering (1807–52), asst. master, Eton.

⁴ Rev. Constantine Frere, tutored Kimberley in Europe prior to the latter going up to Christ Church.

⁵ Henry Longueville Mansel (1820–71), philosopher; scholar and tutor at St John's College, Oxford from 1844. See entry for 10 Aug. 1871.

⁶ Charles I (1600–49), King of England, executed during the Civil War.

⁷ Robert Kennedy Peel (1825–63), son of Jonathan Peel (1799–1879), maj.-genl. from 1854; war sec., 1858–9, 1866; Cons. MP for Huntingdon, 1818–68.

⁸ Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Earl of Minto (1782–1859), ld. privy seal, 1846; prevailed on King of Naples to grant Sicily a separate parliament.

⁹ Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), ld. chanc., 1830–4; reformer who sat constantly in supreme court of appeal and in judicial committee of privy council; strenuously opposed repeal of navigation acts, 1849.

¹⁰ For a vivid description of the Don Pacifico debate see DD1, 20–2.Google Scholar

¹¹ Charles John Canning, 2nd Viscount and 1st Earl Canning (1812–62), post.-genl., 1853–5; gov.-gen., then viceroy of India, 1855–62; cr. earl, 1859.

¹² Richard Cobden (1804–65), leader of the anti-corn law agitation; Rad. MP for West Riding Yorkshire, 1847–57, and for Rochdale, 1859–65.

¹³ John Arthur Roebuck (1801–79), MP for Sheffield, 1849–68, 1874–79; moved for committee of inquiry into conduct of Crimean war, leading to Aberdeen's resignation.

¹⁴ Richard Southwell Bourke (Lord Naas), 6th Earl of Mayo (1822–72), Cons. MP for Kildare, 1847–52, for Coleraine, 1852–57, for Cockermouth, 1857–69; ch. sec. for Ireland, 1852, 1858, 1866; viceroy of India, 1869–72.

¹⁵ Charles Bowyer Adderley, 1st Baron Norton (1814–1905), Cons. MP for Staffs. N., 1841–78; pres. b. of t., 1874–78; er. peer, 1878.

¹⁶ Edward Horsman (1807–76), Whig MP Cockermouth, 1836–52, for Stroud, 1853–68, for Liskeard, 1869–76; ch. sec. for Ireland, 1855–7; with Lowe formed ‘cave of Adullam’ against Reform bill of 1866.

¹⁷ The first ‘preliminary’ meeting of the Society was on 3 Jan. 1850, while final minutes recorded were for a meeting of 30 June 1851. Other founding members of the Society included Francis Baring (chair.), Thomas Milner Gibson, MJ. Higgins, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Lyttelton, F.A. McGeachy, Joseph Napier, Francis Scott, H. Ker Seymer, John Simeon and Augustus Stafford. Lord Naas joined on 9 March 1850.

¹⁸ Writing more than a decade later, Wodehouse's memory failed him with regard to the Finance Committee, which was at first composed of Wodehouse, Simeon and McGeachy. McGeachy appears to have been inactive, leading to Adderley's ‘appointment’ to the committee. Wodehouse was a member of several other committees, however, and was frequently working with Adderley, Molesworth, Hume and Simeon. Together these members formed the active core of the Society. Detailed minutes of the Society's business can be found in NtP 2735. For the founding prospectus of the CRS, see ‘The Society for the Reform of Colonial Government’, 29 Jan. 1850, KP6 MS. eng.c. 3995, ff. 110–11. See too Childe-Pemberton, William S., Life of Lord Norton, 1814–1905: Statesman & Philanthropist (London, 1909), 75–83.Google Scholar

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²⁰ Charles Buller (1806–48), Lib. MP for Liskeard, 1832–48; judge adv.-genl., 1846; ch. poor law com., 1847.

²¹ Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1788–1850), pr. min., 1834–5, 1841–6.

²² 3 Hansard 123 (22 11 1852), 290–3.Google Scholar

²³ George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860), for. sec., 1841–6; pr. min., 1852–5.

²⁴ James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (1807–89), for. sec., 1852, 1858–9; ld. privy seal, 1866–8, 1874–6.

²⁵ Aleksandr II (1818–81), r. 1855–81; m. 1841, Maria da. of Grand Duke Louis II of Hesse-Darmstadt. On presentation of Wodehouse and other English representatives to the Emperor, see Fitzmaurice, E., The Life of Granville George Levenson Gower, Second Earl Granville, 1851–1891 (2 vols., London, 1905), I, 186, 189–94.Google Scholar

²⁶ Sir Charles Locock (1799–1875), obstetric physician; first physician-accoucheur to Queen Victoria, 1840.

²⁷ Konstantin Nikolaevich (1827–92), second son of Tsar Nicholas I; commanded Russian fleet in Baltic during Crimean War; gov. of Poland, 1862–3.

²⁸ Nikolai Nikolaevich (1831–91), third son on Tsar Nicholas I; commanded Russian army of Danube in Russo-Turkish War, 1877–8.

²⁹ Mikhail Nikolaevich (1832–1909), fourth son of Tsar Nicholas I; pres, of privy council of state from 1881.

³⁰ Alexandra Fyodorovna, Empress Dowager, widow of Nicholas I.

³¹ Baron Karl von Werther, Prussian minister to St Petersburg.

³² Charles Auguste, Duc de Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III; pres, of the Corps Legislatif, 1854–65.

³³ An eminently repeatable anecdote which improved with age. Cf. Kimberley Memoir, 489, Gower, F. Levenson, Bygone Years (London, 1905), 217.Google Scholar

³⁴ Valentin Esterhazy, Austrian amb. to St Petersburg.

³⁵ Jean Baptiste Baudin. On his friendship with Wodehouse, see Baudin to Wodehouse, 28 June 1856, KP6 MS.eng.c.40O9, ff. 11–12.

³⁶ For elaboration on the sartorial indiscretion, see Wodehouse to Clarendon, 28 Feb. 1857, KP3 Add. MS 46692, f. 302.

³⁷ Se p. 55.

³⁸ Horatio Seymour, gov. of New York, 1853–5, 1863–5; Democratic candidate for President.

³⁹ Gennaro Capeche-Galeota, Duke of Regina.

⁴⁰ Cf. Kimberley Memoir, 489.

⁴¹ Prince Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gorchakov (1798–1883), Russian foreign minister, 1856–82. Wodehouse's business can be closely followed in his correspondence with Clarendon (BL Add. MSS 46692–4) and Hammond (PRO FO 391/3); and in other correspondence, memoranda and papers relating to his ministry in St Petersburg (KP6 MSS.Eng.c.4008–11).

⁴² Wodehouse was rather more critical at the time, reflecting the heat of their mutual antagonism. See Wodehouse to Clarendon, 22 Nov. 1856, KP1 Add. MS 46692, if. 144–5.

⁴³ Dimitri Aleksandrovich Tolstoi, Russian for. u.-sec.; min. of public instruction, 1866–80.

⁴⁴ Ferdinand II (1810–59), Kmg of Naples r. 1830–59.

⁴⁵ Cf. Kimberley Memoir, 489.

⁴⁶ Kimberley, always wary of pretension, enjoyed recounting a similar story regarding Prince Metternich. Late in life, as Metternich prepared for an audience with the King of Denmark, he was unable to find the insignia of the Danish Order of the Elephant. According to Kimberley, ‘Metternich ordered [his valet] at once to buy, borrow, or steal another set. This the one valet did, and Metternich, conspiciously adorned with the insignia of the Order, presented himself before the King. He then, to his dismay, found that His Majesty had summoned him for the purpose of presenting him with the Order of the Elephant, that being one of the very few European Orders which had not already received.’ Reminiscences of Lard Kilbracken (London, 1931), 203Google Scholar. See too Kimberley, to Cardwell, , 23 10 1870Google Scholar, CdP 30/48/31, ff. 77–8, 94; JE, 33.Google Scholar

⁴⁷ Karl Robert, Count Nesselrode (1780–1862), member of the Congress of Vienna; Russian chancellor who negotiated the Treaty of Paris ending the Crimean War.

⁴⁸ Prince Aleksei Fedorovich Orlov (1787–1862), engaged in negotiations following the Crimean War.

⁴⁹ For a more favourable view of Russian society, laced with biographical observations on a variety of lower-level diplomats, see Henry Wodehouse's letters to his mother, KP1 15/K2/20.

⁵⁰ Wodehouse was, of course, spying as well. See Clarendon, to Wodehouse, , 29 10 1856, 4 02 1857Google Scholar, KP3 Add. MS 46692, ff. 110, 263; Wodehouse, to Clarendon, , 12 06 1857Google Scholar, KP3 Add. MS 46693, f. 112; Wodehouse, to Clarendon, , 12 12 1857Google Scholar, KP3 Add. MS 46694, ff. 14–19; Wodehouse, to Hammond, , 23 05 1857Google Scholar, 10 Oct. 1857, HmP FO 391/3.

⁵¹ For a sketched floorplan and further description, see Wodehouse, John to Wodehouse, Anne, 29 09 1856Google Scholar, KP1 12/K2/18; Wodehouse, Henry to Wodehouse, Anne, 2 11 1857Google Scholar, KP1 15/K.2/20.

⁵³ Cf. Wodehouse, to Currie, Routes, 11 10 1856Google Scholar, KP1 3/1, where he indicated £1,950, less £300 for leasing a portion to Kers.

⁵³ Cf. Wodehouse, to Clarendon, , 31 01 1857Google Scholar, KP3 Add. MS 46692, f. 259.

⁵⁴ Count Peter von Meyendorff, diplomatic adviser to Nicholas I.

⁵⁵ Cf. Kimberley Memoir 489–90.

⁵⁶ Viktor Nikitich Panin, min. of justice, 1841–62.

⁵⁷ Sir James Parke, Baron Wensleydale (1782–1868), raised to the king's bench, 1828; transferred to the exchequer, 1834.

⁵⁸ Thomas Macaulay's History of England was published in three stages: vols. I & II in 1848; vols. III & IV in 1855; vol. V in 1861.

⁵⁹ See Biddulph, M. A. to Wodehouse, , 8 03 1867Google Scholar, KP6 MS.eng.c.4009, ff. 21–2.

⁶⁰ On 17 June Wodehouse spoke on the slave trade, on 2 July in favour of the Church Rates Abolition Bill, on 23 July in favour of the Marriage Law Amendment Bill, and briefly interposed in favour of the second reading of the Government of New Caledonia Bill.

⁶¹ Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley (1804–84), amb. to Paris, 1852–67; conducted negotiations following the Crimean War. On circumstances surrounding the appointment of Wodehouse, see Liberal by Principle, 32Google Scholar; Clarendon to Duchess of Manchester, 16 Dec. 1859, in ‘My Dear Duchess’: Social and Political Letters to the Duchess of Manchester, 1858–1869 (London, 1956), 83–4.Google Scholar

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⁶⁵ Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (1810–69), commissioner; Sir Henry Cole (1808–82), on managing committee. For a concise treatment of problems related to the exhibition, see Prasch, Thomas, ‘International Exhibition of 1862’, in (Findling, J., ed.) Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions, 1851–1988 (New York, 1990), 23–30.Google Scholar

⁶⁶ Ulick John de Burgh Canning, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (1802–74).

⁶⁷ George Arthur Hastings, 7th Earl of Granard (1833–89).

⁶⁸ Henry Pelharn Tiennes Pelham Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle (1811–64), war & col. sec., 1852–4; sec. war, 1854–5; col. sec., 1859–64.

⁶⁹ George Hadfield (1787–1879), Rad. MP for Sheffield, 1852–74.

⁷⁰ Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton (1798–1869), col. sec., 1855–8; raised to peerage, 1859.

⁷¹ John Winston Spencer Churchill, Marquess of Blandford (1822–83), Cons. MP for Woodstock, 1844–5, 1847–57, when he succ. as 7th Duke of Marlborough; ld. pres., 1867–8; ld. lt. of Ireland, 1876–80. In his Memoirs, Kimberley called Marlborough at Eton an ‘ill conditioned disagreeable fellow’. See herein, 492.

⁷² William John Legh (1828–98), MP for S. Lancashire, 1859–85; cr. Baron Newton, 1892. On the connection between the two families, see Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton, Retrospection (London, 1941), 8.Google Scholar

⁷³ Lady Selina had first married G.E. Vernon, then John Junior Bidwell senior f.o. clerk, 1859–72. Cf. Kimberley Memoir, 490.

⁷⁴ Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–81), ch. exch., 1852, 1858–9, 1866–8; leader in commons, 1858–9; pr. min., 1868, 1874–80; accused the government of war-like expenditure in time of peace bringing on a heavier burden of taxation. 3 Hansard 166 (8 05 1862), 1403–28.Google Scholar

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⁷⁶ George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge (1819–1904), comm.-in-chief from 1856.

⁷⁷ John Thadeus Delane (1817–79), ed. of The Times, 1841–77.

⁷⁸ Anthony Henley (1825–98), Lib. MP for Northampton, 1859–74; cr- Baron Northington, 1885; David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Airlie (1826–81). Both were with Wodehouse at Eton and Christ Church, and remained his lifelong friends. See Wodehouse's estimate of Airlie, herein, 324.

⁷⁹ François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787–1874), French historian.

⁸⁰ Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877). French historian, leader of lib. opposition, 1863–70.

⁸¹ William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), pr. min., 1834, 1835–41.

⁸² Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), commanded army of the Netherlands in defeat of Napoleon, 1815; com.-in-chief, 1827–8, 1842–52.

⁸³ Frederick Thesiger (1794–1878), 1st Baron Chelmsford; atty.-genl., 1845–6, 1852; ld. chanc. 1858–9, 1866–8.

⁸⁴ Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790–1871), gov.-genl. of India, 1841–4; pres, bd. of cont., 1858.

⁸⁵ Rudolphe, Count Apponyi (1812–76), Austrian amb. to London, 1856–71; to Paris, 1871–6.

⁸⁶ Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork and Orrey (1829–1904).

⁸⁷ Anne Florence, wife of Francis Thomas de Grey, 7th Earl Cowper.

⁸⁸ John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton de Gyfford (1786–1869), pres, of bd. of cont., 1835–41, 1846–52; friend of Byron and executor of his estate.

⁸⁹ Charles John Manners-Sutton, 2nd Viscount Canterbury (1812–69), died unmarried and succeeded by his brother, John Henry Thomas.

⁹⁰ Walpole's motion, on government expenditure, placed the House in an embarrassing position. On Walpole's weakness, see DD1, 186–7.Google Scholar

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⁹² James Stansfeld (1820–98), Lib. MP for Halifax, 1859–95, put forward a motion calling for greater government economy, which was defeated by 367 to 67 votes. On the impression left by Stansfeld, see too Jenkins, T. A., The Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawny, 1858–65 (London, 1990), 208–9.Google Scholar

⁹³ Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–72), Italian republican, associated with all major revolutionary movements between 1830 and his death.

⁹⁴ In 1851 the US state of Maine enacted legislation prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages.

⁹⁵ Edward Cardwell (1813–86), pres. b. of t., 1852–5; ch. sec. Ireland, 1859–61; col. sec., 1864–6; war sec., 1868–74; cr. viscount, 1874.

⁹⁶ Henry Bouverie Brand (1814–92), Lib. MP for Lewes, 1852–68, for Cambridgeshire, 1868–84; parlt. sec. to treas., 1859–66; speaker of House of Commons, 1872–84; cr. Viscount Hampden of Glynde, 1884; succ. as 23rd Baron Dacre, 1880.

⁹⁷ Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield (1830–1914), of Gunton Park, Norfolk; intimate friend of Edward, Prince of Wales.

⁹⁸ Sir William Cubiti (1785–1861), engineer and partner, Messrs Ransome of Ipswich; consultant in development of major English and European railways and waterworks.

⁹⁹ Charles Grey (1804–70), genl., 1865; priv. sec. to Prince Albert, 1849–61 and to Queen Victoria, 1861–70.

¹⁰⁰ Edmund Hammond (1802–90), perm, u.-sec. for for. aff. 1854–73.

¹⁰¹ Roman Catholic wife of Frederick William Robert, 4th Earl of Londonderry (1805–72). On the strain of madness in the family, see DD1, 219.

¹⁰² Ernest Philip Ivanovich, Count Brunnow (1797–1875), Russian amb. to London, 1840–4, 1858–64.

¹⁰³ Henry Austin Bruce (1815–95), Lib. MP for Merthyr Tydvil, 1852–68 for Renfrew shire, 1869–73; u.-sec. for home off., 1862–64; home sec., 1869–73; ld. pres, coun., 1873–74; cr. Baron Aberdare, 1873.

¹⁰⁴ Henry Eden (1797–1888), adm. lord, 1855–8; rear-adm., 1854; adm., 1864.

¹⁰⁵ Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826–1904), lib. MP for Penryn and Falmouth, 1857–66, when he suce, as 2nd Baron Northbrook; u.-sec. for India, 1859–64; Viceroy of India, 1872–6; 1st ld. adm., 1880–5.

¹⁰⁶ Charles Blondin (pseud, of Jean François Gravelet) (1824–97), French tightrope walker who several times had crossed Niagara Falls in the 1850s.

¹⁰⁷ Samuel Jones Loyd, 1st Baron of Overstone (1796–1883), city banker, author and early Kimberley supporter. See O'Brien, (ed.), Correspondence of Lord Overstone, I, 750–8Google Scholar; Currie, , Recollections, I, 425–6.Google Scholar

¹⁰⁸ Adam Black (1784–1874), owned bookselling firm in Edinburgh, where he was a Lib. MP, 1856–65.

¹⁰⁹ The order for the third reading of the Red Sea and India Telegraph bill was discharged and the bill re-committed. Argyll observed that objections to the bill had been made for giving the sanction of parliament to the new, as well as the old, company. Because of this he proposed that the first three lines of the 1st clause be omitted and new lines inserted. Wodehouse and the Earl of Camperdown, Lord Redesdale, Lord Lyveden and Earl Grey, refused to accept this change until the new text was set out in a clear and intelligible form. As a result the bill was resubmitted to a Committee of the whole House. 3 Hansard 167 (19 06 1862), 728–30.Google Scholar

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¹¹¹ George Richmond (1809–96), portrait painter and sculptor.

¹¹² Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1809–98), Lib. MP for W. Somerset, 1837–41, 1885–86; for North Devonshire, 1865–85.

¹¹³ Henri Eugene Philippe Louis d'Orleans, Duc d'Aumale (1822–97), 5th s. of Louis Philippe.

¹¹⁴ On Wodehouse's determination to repeal the Navigation laws, see Currie, , Recollections, I, 243.Google Scholar

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¹¹⁶ William Digby Seymour (1822–95), barrister and Lib. MP for Sunderland, 1852–5, for Southampton, 1859–65; bankrupt and censured by benchers of Middle Temple, 1859.

¹¹⁷ William Francis Cowper, (1811–88), lib. MP for Hertford, 1835–68; comm. works, 1860–6; raised to peerage as Baron Mount-Temple, 1880. In difficulties in the Commons over the Thames Embankment Committee. 3 Hansard 167 (27 06 1862), 1138–50.Google Scholar

¹¹⁸ Hubert de Burgh Canning (1832–1916), second son of 1st Marquis of Clanricarde; entered dipl, service, 1852. With the death of his elder brother in 1867, became heir to the marquisate; succ. in 1874. In 1862 he assumed the additional surname of Canning, by royal license, as heir of his maternal uncle, 1st Earl Canning.

¹¹⁹ Horatio, 3rd Earl Nelson (1823–1913).

¹²⁰ Richard Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne (1817–97), cr- Earl of Dartrey, 1866.

¹²¹ William Frederick Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger (1826–92).

¹²² Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (1812–93).

¹²³ Richard John Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore (1823–66).

¹²⁴ Charles Forbes, Comte de Montalembert (1810–70), journalist and politician; entered French House of Peers, 1835; champion of R.C. interests, and opponent of Napoleon III after 1851.

¹²⁵ William Wetmore Story (1819–95), lived in Rome from 1856, becoming intimate friends of Robert and Elizabeth Browning.

¹²⁶ Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818–93), American lawyer, army officer and politician; arbitrary rule as military governor of New Orleans in 1862 led to widespread charges of corruption.

¹²⁷ Edward Henry Stanley (1826–93), Cons. MP for Lynn Regis, 1848–69, when he succ. as 15th Earl of Derby; col. sec., 1858, 1882–5; for. sec., 1866–8, 1874–8; joined Liberals, 1882; led Lib. U. in the Lords, 1886–91.

¹²⁸ Victor Fialin, Duc de Persingy (1808–72), amb. to London, 1855–8, 1859–60; min. of inter., 1860–3.

¹²⁹ Of Savoy.

¹³⁰ Ernestine, sixth child of Wodehouse's paternal uncle, Alfred Wodehouse, who had d. in 1848.

¹³¹ Edmond Robert Wodehouse (1835–1914), only son of Sir Philip Wodehouse; priv. sec. to Kimberley, 1864–6, 1868–74; MP for Bath, 1880–1906, Lib. then Lib. U. from 1886. One of 18 lib. to vote for Jessie Collings's amendment in 1886.

¹³² Sir George Nugent, West Hading Hall, Thetford.

¹³³ Philip Gurdon, a maternal uncle.

¹³⁴ Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley (1802–69), post.-genl., 1860–6. For Wodehouse's political assessment, see entry for 11 Aug. 1869.

¹³⁵ Probably Lady Henrietta Russell, wife of Lord Henry Russell and sister-in-law to the 7th Duke of Bedford and Lord John Russell.

¹³⁶ Lord Edward Russell (1805–87), adm., 1867; son of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford.

¹³⁷ George Granville William Leveson-Gower (1828–92), 3rd Duke of Sutherland.

¹³⁸ Lady Wriothesley Russell, da. of Lord William Russell; m. 1829 the Rev. Lord Wriothesley, Canon of Windsor and Chaplain to Prince Albert.

¹³⁹ Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill (1829–84), amb. at Berlin, from 1871. On Wodehouse's assessment of Odo Russell, see entry for 27 Aug. 1884.

¹⁴⁰ William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford (1809–72), recluse; d. unmarried.

¹⁴¹ Benjamin Jowett (1817–93), Oxford prof, from 1855; master of Balliol, 1870–93.

¹⁴² Lyulph Stanley (1839–1929), fellow of Balliol from Nov. 1862; succ. as 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley, 1903. On his radicalism, see N. Mitford (ed.), The Stanleys of Alderley: Their Letters between the Years 1851–1865 (London, 1968), xii.

¹⁴³ John George Dodson (1825–97), Lib. MP for E. Sussex, 1857–74 for Chester, 1874–80, for Scarborough, 1880–4; fin. sec. treas., 1873–4; Pres. loc. govt. bd., 1880–2; chanc. d. of Lane., 1882–4; Lib. U. from 1886; with Wodehouse at Eton and Christ Church; 1st Baron Monk Bretton, 1884.

¹⁴⁴ Henrietta Blanche, Lady Airlie (1829–1921), was the third child of the 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley. According to Mitford, she became, like her mother, a ‘tartar to her relations in old age.’ Stanleys of Alderley, xiii.

¹⁴⁵ Robert Thornhagh Gurdon (1829–1902), Lib. MP for S. Norfolk, 1880–5, for mid-Norfolk, 1885–92, 1895; Lib. U. after 1886; cr. Baron Cranworth, 1899. M. Harriet Ellen, 6th da. of Sir William Miles (1797–1878), Cons. MP for Somerset E., 1834–65.

¹⁴⁶ George John Milles, 4th Baron Sondes (1794–1874).

¹⁴⁷ Edward Thornton-Wodehouse (1802–74), 3rd son of John, 2nd Lord Wodehouse; rear-admiral.

¹⁴⁸ Cecilia Wodehouse, eld. da. of Edward and Diana Thornton-Wodehouse.

¹⁴⁹ On H. Wodehouse's doubts, see J. Wodehouse to H. Wodehouse, 1 Aug. 1861, KP1 15/K2/19.

¹⁵⁰ William Thomson (1819–90), chapl. to Queen Victoria, 1869; opposed Essays and Reviews (1860) with Aids to Faith (1861); bishop of Glouchester and Bristol, 1861; archbp. of York, 1862.

¹⁵¹ Andrew Buchanan (1807–82), rain, to Prussia from 1862.

¹⁵³ Sir Henry George Elliot (1817–1907), amb. at Constantinople, 1867–77, at Vienna, 1877–84.

¹⁵³ Sir John Fiennes Twisleton Grampton (1805–86), min. plen, and envoy ext. at Hanover, 1857–8; min. plen, to Russia, 1858–60; min. to Madrid, 1860–0.

¹⁵⁴ Sir Francis Napier, 1st Baron Napier and Ettrick (1819–98), amb. to St Petersburg, 1860–4; amb. to Berlin, 1864–9.

¹⁵⁵ Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus (1817–1904), amb. to Prussia; amb. to Russia, 1871–9. Cf. Derby's view of the ‘pompous and tedious’ Loftus. DD2, 18, 42.

¹⁵⁶ John Oddin Taylor, Norwich solicitor; Liberal agent in E. Norfolk during the 1850s and 1860s.

¹⁵⁷ Hamilla Wodehouse, Wodehouse's cousin, whose parents had died in 1848 and 1852. Sister to Ernestine Wodehouse, previously mentioned.

¹⁵⁸ Robert John Harvey, of Harvey and Hudson's Crown Bank.

¹⁵⁹ Gerald Normanby Dillon and Louisa, Kimberley's sister-in-law.

¹⁶⁰ William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton (1799–1864), pres, of Geographical Society, 1860–4.

¹⁶¹ J. Brampton Gurdon (1797–1881), Lib. MP for Norfolk W., 1857–65.

¹⁶² See below, 23 Dec. 1862. On the status of wood plantation on the Kimberley estate, see unpublished ‘Tree Condition Survey’ of Kimberley Park held by Mr. Ronald Buxton.

¹⁶³ See above, 3 Dec. 1862.

¹⁶⁴ Francis William Henry Cavendish and Elinor, Lady Wodehouse's sister, had married in 1856.

¹⁶⁵ Julian Henry Charles Fane (1827–70), sec. of leg. St Petersburg, 1856–8; first sec. at Paris, 1865–7.

¹⁶⁶ Henry Reeve (1813–95), man of letters, ed. of Edinburgh Review from 1855.

¹⁶⁷ Joseph Archer Crowe (1825–96), Times correp., 1857–9; cons.-genl, for Saxony, 1860–72; John Ward (1805–90), cons.-genl, at Hamburg to the Hanse Towns, 1860–70. Palmerston found them intolerably pro-German. See pp. 151–2 of Sandiford, Keith A.P., Great Britain and the Schleswig-Holstein Question, 1848–64 (Toronto, 1975)Google Scholar, which serves as the best published guide to the details of British diplomacy in the Dano-Prussian controversies of 1862–4.

¹⁶⁸ William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1817–85).

¹⁶⁹ On Wodehouse's election to the Pol. Econ. Club, see Liberal by Principle, 12.Google Scholar

¹⁷⁰ Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818–87), Cons. MP for Dudley, 1855–7, for Stamford, 1858–66, for N. Devon, 1866–85; Pres. b. of t., 1866–7; ch. exch., 1874–80; treas., 1885–6; for. sec., 1886–7; cr. Peer 1885.

¹⁷¹ William Arthur Wilkinson (1795–1863), Lib. MP for Lambeth, 1852–7.

¹⁷² Granville William Gresham Leveson-Gower (1838–95), Lib. MP for Reigate, 1863–5; returned in 1865, but election declared void.

¹⁷³ Sir Edmund Walker Head (1805–68), gov.-genl. of Canada.

¹⁷⁴ George Brinton McClellan (1826–85), genl.-in-chief of Union troops in American Civil War, 1861–2.

¹⁷⁵ Sir George Hamilton Seymour (1797–1880), env. extr. to St Petersburg 1851–4 and Austria, 1855.

¹⁷⁶ Alexander William Kinglake (1809–91) barrister; Lib. MP for Bridge-water, 1857–65; publ. Invasion of the Crimea (8 vols., 1863–1887).Google Scholar

¹⁷⁷ Charlotte, wife of Lionel Rothschild, chief manager of the Rothschild banking house in England. After election to parliament in 1847, and repeatedly thereafter, Baron Rothschild had been denied a seat in parliament for refusing to take the oath, but was finally seated in 1858. One of Wodehouse's earliest speeches in the Lords had been in favour of the Oath of Abjuration Bill. 3 Hansard 118 (17 07 1851), 875–7Google Scholar; Liberal by Principle, 25.Google Scholar

¹⁷⁸ On Mrs Brydges Willyams, see Blake, R., Disraeli (London, 1966), 414–21.Google Scholar

¹⁷⁹ Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquis of Normanby (1797–1863), amb. to Paris, 1846–52; min. to Florence, 1854–8.

¹⁸⁰ Of 24 Sept. 1862. Note, especially, the possible influence of Morier. Sandiford, Schleswig-Holstein Question, 53–5.Google Scholar

¹⁸¹ Sir Henry Pollard Willoughby (1796–1865), Cons. MP for Evesham, 1847–65.

¹⁸² Charles Albert Fechter (1824–79), German actor and dramatist who moved from Paris to London in 1860, leasing the Lyceum, 1863–7.

¹⁸³ Marquis Wielopolski, Russian gov.-genl. Poland.

¹⁸⁴ Petr Vladmirovich Dolgoroukov (1817–68), genealogist and author. Exiled from Russia for publishing The Truth about Russia (1860)Google Scholar. He eventually settled in England, and asked Wodehouse to recommend a bank. Wodehouse suggested Curries & Co., writing to Bertram Currie that though the Russian exile was ‘clever’ and ‘unscrupulous’, he knew of no reason why Currie should not ‘receive his money’. ‘He lived in the highest Russian society in St. Petersburg when I was there.’ 31 March 1863, CP.

¹⁸⁵ Jean Baptiste Louis, Baron Gros.

¹⁸⁶ Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden (1817–1905).

¹⁸⁷ William Samuel Best, 2nd Baron Wynford (1798–1869).

¹⁸⁸ John Vesey Parnell, 2nd Baron Congleton (1805–83).

¹⁸⁹ John Thomas Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1805–86); ch. of comm. and dep. speaker of the Lords, 1851–86.

¹⁹⁰ Charles Marsham, 3rd Earl of Romney (1808–74), Cons. MP for W. Kent, 1841–5, when he succ. to peerage.

¹⁹¹ Henry Fawcett (1833–84), prof, of pol. econ. at Cambridge, 1863–84; Rad. MP for Brighton, 1865–74.

¹⁹² Dr Charles James Foster, ch. of the parlt. comm. of the Liberation Society. On the activities of the society, see Jenkins, (ed.), Trelawney Diaries, 1858–1865.Google Scholar

¹⁹³ Wenman Clarence Walpole Coke (1828–1907), lib. MP for Norfolk East, 1858–65. Opposed the ballot.

¹⁹⁴ Charles Kingsley (1819–75), chaplain to Queen Victoria, 1859; prof, of modern history, Cambridge, 1860–9; novelist.

¹⁹⁵ Guy Carleton, 3rd Baron Dorchester (1811–75).

¹⁹⁶ Sir Joshua Jebb (1793–1863), insp.-genl. of military prisons from 1844; developed progressive system of incarceration; designed Portland Prison.

¹⁹⁷ Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope (1805–75), historian and Peel's executor; published, among others, History of England from Peace of Utrecht to Peace of Versailles, 1713–83 (7 vols., 1836–1858)Google Scholar. On Stanhope as historian, see Marsh, Peter, ‘Prime Ministerial Exemplar: Studies of Pitt the Younger by Victorian Statesmen’, Nineteenth-Century Prose 22 (Fall 1995), 115–28.Google Scholar

¹⁹⁸ John Gurdon Rebow (1799–1870), Lib. MP for Colchester, 1857–70; Kimberley's maternal uncle. Upon marriage added ‘Rebow’ to the patronymic Gurdon.

¹⁹⁹ Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Harrington (1857–70), Lib. MP for N. Lancashire, 1857–68, for Radnor Boroughs, 1869–80, for Lancashire N.E., 1880–5, for Lancashire N.E., Rossendale, 1885; lib. U. MP for Rossendale, 1886–91, when he succ. as 8th Duke of Devonshire; u.-sec. war, 1863–6; war sec., 1866, 1882–5; post, genl., 1868–71; ch. sec. Ireland, 1871–4; Indian sec., 1880–2; ld. pres, counc., 1895–1903. On the misunderstood nature of Harrington's ‘riot & debauchery’, see Jackson, Patrick, ‘“Skittles” and the Marquess: A Victorian Love Affair’, History Today (12 1995), 47–52.Google Scholar

²⁰⁰ William Arthur White (1824–91), vice cons, at Warsaw from 1861; then consul at Danzig, 1864–75.

²⁰¹ Laurence Oliphant (1829–88), novelist and war correspondent; visited Poland Moldavia and Schleswig-Holstein in 1863.

²⁰² Aleksandr Herzen (Yakovlev) (1812–70), Russian writer and political activist.

²⁰³ Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1815–98), Prussian amb. to Russia, 1859, to France, 1862; pres, of Prussian cabinet and for. min., 1862–71; German chanc., 1871–90.

²⁰⁴ George Hadfield (1787–1879), Rad. MP for Sheffield, 1852–74, introduced bin to repeal oath to support the Anglican Church upon taking up certain ministerial offices. See 3 Hansard 170 (24 04 1863), 658–60Google Scholar. Defeated in the Lords by 69 to 52 votes.

²⁰⁵ Wentworth Blackett Beaumont (1829–1907), Lib. MP for Northumberland S., 1852–85, and for Northumberland Tyneside, 1886–92; cr. Baron Allendale, 1892.

²⁰⁶ Michael Obrenovic (1825–68), prince of Serbia, 1839–42, deposed, 1860–8; assassinated.

²⁰⁷ Arthur Mills (1816–98), barrister; Cons. MP for Taunton, 1852–3, 1857–65, for Exeter, 1873–80. Son-in-law of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland.

²⁰⁸ Samuel Wilberforce (1805–73), Bishop of Oxford, 1845–69.

²⁰⁹ Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Baron St. Leonards (1781–1875), ld. chan., 1852. According to the DNB, ‘almost infallible as an oracle of law’.

²¹⁰ Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Viscount Eversley (1794–1888), speaker of the House of Commons, 1839–57; eccl. commissioner, 1859.

²¹¹ Robert Vernon Smith, Baron Lyveden (1800–73), Lib. MP for Tralee, 1829–31, for Northampton, 1831–59; pres. bd. of cont, 1855–8; raised to the peerage in 1859; father-in-law of George Wodehouse Currie, Wodehouse's cousin.

²¹² Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801–85), philanthropist; lib. MP 1826–51, when he succeeded to the earldom.

²¹³ In 1863 Frances Elizabeth, Lady Waldegrave (1821–79), married Chichester Fortescue, Lib. MP for Louth, 1847–74; u.-sec. col., 1857–8, 1859–65; ch. sec. Ireland, 1865–6, 1868–71; pres. b. of t., 1871–4; ld. privy seal, 1881–5; ld. pres, counc., 1883–5.

²¹⁴ Alan Frederick Cathcart, 3rd Earl Cathcart (1828–1905).

²¹⁵ Charles Marsham, 3rd Earl of Romney (1808–74).

²¹⁶ James Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (1791–1868).

²¹⁷ Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St. Germans (1798–1881), ch. sec. Ireland, 1841–5; ld. It. Ireland, 1853–5.

²¹⁸ William Drogo Montague, 7th Duke of Manchester (1823–90).

²¹⁹ Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury (1803–68).

²²⁰ Thomas Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys (1797–1881).

²³¹ Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, Lord Dufferin (1826–1902), Irish baron cr. Baron Clandeboye in U.K. peerage, 1850; u.-sec. for India, 1864–6; u.-sec. to War Office, 1866–8; ch. d. of Lanc., 1868–72; cr. earl, 1871; gov.-genl. Canada, 1872–8; amb. at St Petersburg, 1879–81; amb. at Constantinople, 1881–4; viceroy of India, 1884–8; cr. marquess of Dufferin and Ava, 1888; amb. at Rome, 1889–91; amb. at Paris, 1891–6.

²²² Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury (1801–93), Whig MP for Chester, 1826–47, for Middlesex, 1847–57, when he was cr. Baron.

²²³ Charles Thomas Longley (1794–1868), archbp. York, 1860–2; of Canterbury, 1862–8.

²²⁴ Archibald Campbell Tait (1811–82), bp. London, 1856–68; archbp. Canterbury, 1869–82.

²²⁵ John Everett Millais (1829–96), painter and pres. of the Royal Academy.

²²⁶ Clarkston Stansfield (1793–1867).

²²⁷ Sir Charles Barry (1795–1860), architect; occupied in building the Houses of Parliament, 1840–60.

²²⁸ George Augustus Frederick Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield (1805–66).

²²⁹ Probably Alfred Henry Forrester (1804–72), artist and illustrator; worked for Punch and the Illustrated London News.

²³⁰ Lady Margaret Charteris (1834–1915) da. 2nd Earl of Glengall; m. 1858 Lt.-col. Richard Wemyss-Charteris.

²³¹ Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794–1865), clerk to the privy counc., 1821–59.

²³² Sir William Henry Des Voeux and Lady Sophia Catherine, da. 7th Earl of Coventry.

²³³ Cyril Graham (1834–95), attached to Lord Dufferin's mission to Syria, 1860–1; priv. sec. to Carnarvon as col. sec., 1866–7; It.-gov. Grenada, 1875–7.

²³⁴ Bertram Ashburnham, Viscount St. Asaph (1840–1913), succ. as 5th Earl of Ashburnham, 1878.

²³⁵ Henry William Greville (1801–72), gentleman usher at court.

²³⁶ Edward Ellice (1781–1863), Lib. MP for Coventry, 1831–63; dep. gov. Hudson's Bay Co.

²³⁷ John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell (1779–1861), ch. d. of Lanc., 1846; ld. chanc., 1859.

²³⁸ Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke (1799–1873), rear-admiral, 1854; admiral, 1863; post.-genl, 1852; ld. privy seal, 1858–9.

²³⁹ Cf. entry of 6 June 1862.

²⁴⁰ Alfred Sydney (1814–78) and Leonora (1805–84) Wigan, husband and wife actors.

²⁴¹ John Baldwin Buckstone (1802–79), comedian; manager of the Haymarket, 1853–76.

²⁴² See entry for 28 April 1862.

²⁴³ Edward Berkeley Portman, 1st Viscount Portman (1799–1888).

²⁴⁴ Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond (1818–1903), Cons. MP for W. Sussex, 1841–60; succ, as Duke, 1860; pres. b. of t., 1867–9; leader of Cons, party in Lords from 1868.

²⁴⁵ Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–94), Lib. MP for Aylesbury, 1852–7, for Southwark, 1860–70; for. u.-sec., 1852, 1861–6; excavated Nineveh in 1840s.

²⁴⁶ Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786–1880), began dipl, career in 1807, amb. to Constantinople, 1842–58.

²⁴⁷ Probably Frederick Arthur Stanley (1841–1908), Lord Stanley's brother, who suc. as 16th Earl of Derby upon Stanley's death in 1893; married Clarendon's daughter.

²⁴⁸ Cf. Wodehouse's notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin, KP1 15/K2/6, 54.

²⁴⁹ Carnarvon's committee convened to examine the subscription to formularies of faith by fellows and tutors of Oxford University.

²⁵⁰ Coombe Warren, Kingston.

²⁵¹ De Grey's country seat.

²⁵² Richard Noverre Bacon, editor of the Liberal weekly, Norwich Mercury.

²⁵³ Lord John Hay (1827–1916), Lib. MP for Wick, 1857–9, for Ripon, 1866–71.

²⁵⁴ Wife of George Grenfell Glyn (1824–87), banker; Lib. MP for Shaftesbury, 1857–73, when he succ. as 2nd Baron Wolverton; Lib. chief whip, 1867–73; sec. to treas., 1868–73. In 1864 the firm of Glyn, Mills & Co. consolidated with Raikes Currie's private bank. See ‘Curries & Co. in the Nineteenth Century’, Three Banks Review (06 1964), 52–4.Google Scholar

²⁵⁵ Richard Doyle (1824–83), illustrator and caricaturist.

²⁵⁶ The Rev. B. P. Viner, Canadian priest then visiting England.

²⁵⁷ John Sandfield Macdonald (1812–72), pr. min. of Canada, 1862–4.

²⁵⁸ Sidney Godolphin Osborne (1808–89), philanthropist and miscellaneous writer.

²⁵⁹ Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1837–1915), Lib. MP for Lynn Regis, 1865–8.

²⁶⁰ Charles Buxton (1823–71), Lib. MP for Newport, 1857–9, Maidstone, 1859–65, for E. Surrey, 1865–71.

²⁶¹ P. D. Smith, of Smith & Paul's, Wodehouse's Cornwall solicitors.

²⁶² On the inequities (and iniquities) of the ‘three life’ lease system prevalent in western Cornwall in the 1860s and beyond, see ‘The Bitter Cry of Cornish Leaseholders’, [188?], KP6 MS.eng.d.2491.

²⁶³ John Henry Gurney (1819–90), Norwich banker; Lib. MP for Lynn Regis, 1854–65.

²⁶⁴ Andalusia, Lady Molesworth. After Sir William's death in 1855, she lived thirty-three years at Pencarrow, where she reigned ‘alone — but never lonely’. See Adburgham, Alison, A Radical Aristocrat, Sir William Molesworth of Pencarrow and his Wife Andalusia (Padstow, 1990), ix.Google Scholar

²⁶⁵ Sir Charles Crespigny Vivian, 2nd Baron Vivian (1808–86), ld. It. of Cornwall, 1856–77.

²⁶⁶ Sir James Talbot Airey (1812–98), served at Cabul, in Gwalior campaign and in the Crimea; It.-genl., 1877.

²⁶⁷ Sir Charles Eastlake (1793–1865), pres. of the Royal Academy.

²⁶⁸ The Hon. and Rev. Walter Ponsonby (1821–1906), 7th Earl of Bessborough after the death of his brother in 1895.

²⁶⁹ Lady Louisa Eliot, m. Walter Ponsonby in 1850.

²⁷⁰ Henry Eliot (1835–1911), served in RN, 1848–53; foreign office, 1855–81, when he succ. as 5th Earl of St Germans.

²⁷¹ Richard Hobart FitzGibbon, 3rd Earl of Clare (1793–1864), served in the Napoleonic wars; MP for Co. Limerick, 1818–41; ld. It. Co. Limerick, 1831–48, 1851–64.

²⁷² Sir Jacob Henry Preston, D L of Norfolk, of Beeston Hall, Beeston St Lawrence, Norwich.

²⁷³ Robert Blake Humphrey. DL of Norfolk, of Wroxham House, Wroxham; active Cons.

²⁷⁴ Henry Negus Burroughes (1791–1872), Cons. MP for Norfolk E., 1837–57, when he retired. On Wodehouse's role in electing a Liberal to replace Burroughes, see KP1 3/2; Liberal by Principle, 11–12Google Scholar. Cf. The Poll for a Knight of the Shire for the Eastern Division of Norfolk … and an account of the Position of the Parties between the Contests of 1831 find 1858 (Norwich, 1858), ix–xxiiGoogle Scholar, where Wodehouse's potential influence in local politics is suspected, but never traced.

²⁷⁵ Sir Samuel Morton Peto (1809–89), contractor; Lib. MP for Norwich, 1847–54, for Finsbury, 1859–65.

²⁷⁶ Charles Cornwallis, 5th Baron Braybrooke (1823–1902).

²⁷⁷ Sir John Peter Boileau (1794–1869), archaeologist; v.p. Society of Antiquaries, 1858–62, 1863–7; Norfolk County magistrate.

²⁷⁸ Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps (1801–66), priv. sec. to Prince Albert from 1847; keeper of the queen's purse from 1849.

²⁷⁹ James Bruce, 8th Earl Elgin (1811–63), Viceroy of India, 1862–3.

²⁸⁰ Prince of Augustenburg (1818–1906), succ, as Christian IX, King of Denmark and Norway, r. 1863–1906.

²⁸¹ Sir Robert Burnett David Morier (1826–93), held various diplomatic appointments at German courts, 1853–76; min. to Portugal, 1876–81; to Spain, 1881–4; amb. to Russia, 1884–93. On future results of the disagreement between Wodehouse and Morier, see Liberal by Principle, 278–9.Google Scholar

²⁸² Albert Bernstorff (1809–74), Danish min. to London.

²⁶³ Thomas Henry Sanderson (1841–1923), junior f.o. clerk, 1859–66; priv. sec. to Derby, 1866–8, 1874–8; and to Granville, 1880–5; perm, u.-sec., 1894–1906.

²⁸⁴ Sir Henry Francis Howard (1809–98), British amb. to Hanover, 1859–66.

²⁸⁵ Andrew Buchanan (1807–82), British amb. to Spain, 1858–60; amb. to Prussia, 1862–4.

²⁸⁶ Count Aloys Karolyi, Austrian min. at Berlin.

²⁸⁷ Augustus Berkeley Paget (1823–96), min. at Copenhagen, 1859–66.

²⁸⁸ Carl Hall (1812–88), Danish pr. min., 1857–9, 60–3.

²⁸⁹ Comte Emile Felix Fleury (1815–84), brig, genl.; a.d.c. to Napoleon III.

²⁹⁰ Waldemar Tully d'Oxholm (1805–76).

²⁹¹ Ditlev Gothard Monrad (1811–87), bp. of Lolland-Falster, 1849–54; Danish educ. min., 1859–63; minister pres., 1863.

²⁹² Christian Albrecht Bluhme (1794–1866), minister pres. and for. min., 1864–5.

²⁹³ Jens Jacob Worsaae (1821–85), Danish historian and archaeologist.

²⁹⁴ Charles Augustus Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden (1799–1868), min. to Belgium, 1846–68.

²⁹⁵ Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys (1805–81), French for. min., 1862–6.

²⁹⁶ A fair estimate of a failed mission. According to Sandiford, ‘Wodehouse did not have the slightest chance of averting the federal execution.’ Great Britain and the Schleswig-Holstein Question, 79.Google Scholar

²⁹⁷ Last surviving da. of John, first Baron Wodehouse, by Sophia, only child of the Hon. Charles Berkeley.

²⁹⁸ Cf. Kimberley Memoir, herein, 490.

²⁹⁹ George John Browne, 3rd Marquis of Sligo (1820–96).

³⁰⁰ Palmerston having been cited as co-respondent in a divorce suit brought by an Irish journalist.

³⁰¹ Cf. Kimberley Memoir, herein, 490.

³⁰² Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95), member of Peking legation, 1861–71.

³⁰³ Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy (1814–1906), Cons. MP for Leominster, 1856–65, for Oxford U., 1865–78; home sec., 1867–8; war sec., 1874–8; Indian sec., 1878–80; ld. pres. counc., 1885–92; cr. Viscount Cranbrook, 1878, Earl of Cranbrook, 1892.

³⁰⁴ On Wodehouse's early agreement with the elder Azeglio's moderate revolutionary ardour, see Wodehouse, Notes on Books, Kp1 15/K2/6, p. 5.

³⁰⁵ Algernon Borthwick (1830–1908), succ. father as editor of the Morning Post in 1852Google Scholar; purchased same in 1876; Cons. MP for South Kensington, 1885–95; cr. Baron Glenesk, 1895.

³⁰⁶ See entry for 8 April 1864.

³⁰⁷ Sidney Frances Bateman (1823–81), playwright and actress.

³⁰⁸ Refuting the prevailing idea that she was ‘about again to hold levees and drawing rooms in person, and to appear as before at Court balls, concerts, &c.’ The Times, 6 04 1864, p. 9.Google Scholar

³⁰⁹ Georges Chrétien Frédéric, Leopold I (1790–1865), fourth son of Francis Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield; chosen first King of the Belgians in 1831; uncle of Queen Victoria.

³¹⁰ Christian Freidrich, Baron von Stockmar (1787–1863), Coburg advisor to Victoria and Albert.

³¹¹ For Clarendon's recommendation, see Liberal by Principle, 35.Google Scholar

³¹² Cf. Wodehouse to Raikes Currie, 9 April 1864, in Liberal by Principle, 95–6.Google Scholar

³¹³ For allowing Mazzini's supporters to use his house as a post office. See entry for 18 March 1864.

³¹⁴ Harriet Ellen Gurdon, 6th da. of Sir William Miles.

³¹⁵ Henry Thomas Liddell (1797–1878), Lib.-Cons. MP for Liverpool, 1853–5, when he succ. as 2nd Baron Ravensworth.

³¹⁶ George Fleming Warren, and Baron De Tabley (1811–87).

³¹⁷ John Charles Ogilvie-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield (1815–81), sat as Baron Strathspey.

³¹⁸ Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–82), Italian patriot and revolutionary.

³¹⁹ Anthony Panizzi (1797–1879), chief librarian of the British Museum, 1856–66; KCB, 1869.

³²⁰ Charles Wood (1800–85), Lib. MP for Grimsby, 1826, for Wareham, 1831, for Halifax, 1832–65, for Ripon 1865–6, when he was created Viscount Halifax; 1st ld. adm., 1855; India sec., 1859–65; ld. pr. seal, 1870–4.

³³¹ Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809–86), pr. min. of Saxony, 1853–66.

³²² Conference of parties to the London Treaty, seeking repeal of the Danish constitution in return for postponement of Prussian occupation.

³²³ John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath (1831–96). See too DD2, 218Google Scholar; Cf. Kimberley memoir, herein, 491.

³²⁴ Sir Augustus Clifford (1788–1877), usher of the black rod, 1832–77; Malmesbury, Memoirs of an Ex-minister (new edn, London, 1885), 593–5.Google Scholar

³²⁵ Cecil Beadon (1816–81), lieut. gov. of Bengal, 1862–7.

³²⁶ Edward Baines (1800–90), ed. of Leeds Mercury from 1818; Lib. MP for Leeds, 1859–74.

³²⁷ Naboth's vineyard, adjacent to royal lands, was coveted by King Ahab of Israel. His queen, Jezebel, plotted Naboth's death so that Ahab might take the vineyard. See II Kings 9:25–6.

³²⁸ Probably Herman Merivale (1806–74), u.-sec. for India, 1859–64, and miscellaneous writer.

³²⁹ Francis William Henry Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland (1825–91), succ, to Earldom, 1859; retired from army as col. 1860, having served in India and the Crimea.

³³⁰ Balaam was a heathen diviner, who first respected God's prohibition from helping the Moabites against Israel. Finally giving way to King Balak's entreaties, Balaam rode toward the Moabite court. During the course of the journey, Balaam was verbally rebuked by his ass for resisting the plan of God. See Numbers, chaps. 22–5.

³³¹ Charles Pelham Villiers (1802–98), Lib. MP for Wolverhampton, 1835–98; pres. poor law bd., 1859–66.

³³² Sir John Hay calling upon parliament to ‘avenge the blood of their brothers’ who had died in the ‘fetid swamps of Central Africa’ for the government's want of foresight. The motion against the government was beaten 233 to 226. The Times, 10 06 1864, 8.Google Scholar

³³³ Cf. Kimberley memoir, herein, 491.

³³⁴ For an account of the sale, see The Times, 18 06 1864, 14.Google Scholar

³³⁵ Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquis of Hertford (1800–74).

³³⁶ Charles Mills (1825–95), brigade commander in Crimea; held various military posts in South Africa.

³³⁷ George Clive (1806–80), Lib. MP for Hereford, 1857–69, 1874–80; u.-sec. home o., 1859–62.

³³⁸ George Stephens Byng, Lord Enfield (1830–98), Lib. MP for Tavistock, 1852–7, for Middlesex, 1857–74; succ. as 3rd Earl of Strafford, 1886.

³³⁹ Henry Riversdale Grenfell (1824–1902), Lib. MP for Stoke-upon-Trent, 1862–78.

³⁴⁰ Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid (1839–78), Lib. MP for Reading, 1860–78.

³⁴¹ Charles Paget Fitz-Hardinge Berkeley (1830–1916), lib. MP for Gloucestershire 1862–5; succ. as 3rd Baron Fitz-Hardinge, 1896.

³⁴² Henry Weysford Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings (1842–68), married Lady Florence Paget (1842–1907) and ruined himself on the turf.

³⁴³ Henry Chaplin (1840–1923), Cons. MP for mid-Lincolnshire (Sleaford), 1868–1906, for Wimbledon, 1907–16; pres. bd. agric., 1889–92; pres. loc. govt. bd., 1895–1900. For Chaplin's revenge, see entry for 23 May 1867.

³⁴⁴ George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle (1802–64), ld. It. Ireland, 1855–8, 1859–64.

³⁴⁵ On 12 Aug. 1864, Delane had observed in The Times (p. 6) that ‘happily now and then a good man’ was not placed ‘so entirely to his liking as to shirk an untried burden’. The position was first offered to, and refused by, the Duke of Devonshire and Lord Bessborough.

³⁴⁶ Berkeley Wodehouse (1806–77), maj. 8th Hussars; British res., Ionian Islands; younger brother of Wodehouse's father.

³⁴⁷ Charles Wodehouse, son of Rev. Alfred Wodehouse and Emma-Hamilla Macdonald; brother of Hamilla and Ernestine, see above, x, 73, 78.

³⁴⁸ Palmerston wrote that it had first been offered to Bessborough ‘as an Irishman’, though Wodehouse was the best Englishman, and would at all events possess an advantage over most Irishmen, of being unconnected with Irish land and party politics. Palmerston, to Wodehouse, , 25 09 1864Google Scholar, KP6 MS.eng.c. 4475, ff. 31–2. On Lady Wodehouse's distress, see Wodehouse, Henry to Wodehouse, Anne, 13 10 1864Google Scholar, KP1 15/K2/20.

³⁴⁹ Maziere Brady (1796–1871), Irish ld. chanc., 1846–52, 1853–8, 1859–24 July 1866.

³⁵⁰ Sir John Bernard Burke (1814–92).

³⁵¹ William Monsell (1812–94), Lib. MP for Limerick, 1847–74; v.p. b. of t. and paym.-genl., 1866–8; u.-sec. col., 1868–70; post.-genl., 1871–3; cr. Baron Emly, 1874.

³⁵² Joseph Dixon (1806–66), archbp. of Armagh, 1852–66.

³⁵³ In his memoir, Wodehouse recounted the absurdity of the lord lieutenant riding into Dublin all booted and spurred, as if spontaneously assuming the office. See Kimberley memoir, herein, 491.

³⁵⁴ Sir George Brown (1790–1865), fought in the Peninsular War and Crimea; It.-genl., 1851; commdr.-in-chief, Ireland, 1860–5.

³⁵⁵ Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–86), archbp. of Dublin, 1864–84.

³⁵⁶ Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom (1801–79), maj.-genl., 1858; perm, u.-sec. for Ireland, 1853–68. On Wodehouse's favourable estimate of Larcom, see Wodehouse to deGrey, 7 Dec. 1864., in Liberal by Principle, 99–100.Google Scholar

³⁵⁷ Charles Graves (1812–99), dean of Castle Chapel, 1860; dean of Clonfert, 1864; pres, of Royal Irish Academy, 1861; bp. of Limerick, 1866–99.

³⁵⁸ Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster (1791–1874), premier lord of Ireland.

³⁵⁹ William Sydney Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim (1806–78). On Leitrim's notoriety as a disreputable landlord, see Wodehouse to deGrey, 11 Feb. 1865, RP 43522, f. 31; Steele, E.D., Irish Land and British Politics (Cambridge, 1974), 72.Google Scholar

³⁶⁰ Peter Paul McSwiney, Lord Mayor of Dublin.

³⁶¹ Chalres William Russell (1812–80), pres, of Maynooth College from 1857.

³⁶² Theatre Royale.

³⁶³ For an account of the recommendations, see Wodehouse to Grey, 8 Dec. 1864, in Liberal by Principle, 101–2.Google Scholar

³⁶⁴ William Robert Seymour Vesey-Fitzgerald (1817–85), Lib.-Cons. MP for Horsham, 1852–65,1874–5.

³⁶⁵ Valentine Augustus Browne, Lord Castlerosse (1825–1905), cr. 4th Earl of Kenmare, 1871.

³⁶⁶ David Moriarty (1814–77). Bitterly opposed Home Rule and all movements against the government.

³⁶⁷ Edward Lawless, 3rd Baron Cloncurry (1816–69).

³⁶⁸ Sir James O'Connell (1786–1872). On Wodehouse's regard for O'Connell, see Wodehouse to Russell, 1 Oct. 1865, RiP 30/22/15f, ff. 8–9.

³⁶⁹ Alexander Macdonnell (1794–1875), resident com. of the bd. of ed. 1839–71.

³⁷⁰ Abraham Brewster (1796–1874), Irish ld. chanc., 1867–8. On Wodehouse's high opinion of Brewster, see Wodehouse to Larcom, 2 Aug. 1866, LcP 7694.

³⁷¹ William Donelly (1804–79).

³⁷⁸ William Henry Gregory (1817–92), Lib.-Cons. MP for Galway Co., 1857–72.

³⁷³ Sir Robert Kane (1809–90), pres, of Queen's College, Cork, 1845–73; dir Museum of Irish Industry from 1846.

³⁷⁴ ‘There is no lesson more necessary than this’, Wodehouse observed from experience, ‘that you should not be discouraged, but persevere, and you may be assured that the reward will come at last … some attain distinction early, while others that have risen but slowly, attain that distinction afterwards.’ KP6 MS.eng.b.2408, f. 13.

³⁷⁵ Captain Walling Everard, a.d.c. in waiting; eventually asst. priv. sec. to Wodehouse.

³⁷⁶ Probably Spencer Ponsonby, entered FO, 1840; priv. sec. to Palmerston, 1846–51, to Granville, 1851–2, to Clarendon, 1852–7; and his elder brother, Frederick Ponsonby, who succ. as 6th Earl of Bessborough in 1880.

³⁷⁷ Henry Francis Seymour, 3rd Marquis of Drogheda (1825–92).

³⁷⁸ John Critchton, 3rd Earl of Erne (1802–85).

³⁷⁹ George Woods Maunsell complained of the recent withdrawal of government subsidies to the Society. KP6 MS.eng.b.2408, f. 14.

³⁸⁰ Thomas O'Hagan (1812–85), Irish atty.-genl., 1861–3, Feb. 1865; Irish ld. chanc., 1868–74, 1880–1.

³⁸¹ James Anthony Lawson (1817–87), sol.-genl., 1861–5; atty.-genl., 1865–6; lib. MP for Portarlinton, 1865–8; justice of the common pleas, Ireland, 1868–72; Irish Church com., 1869.

³⁸² Sir James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone (1805–86), Lib.-Cons. MP for Portsmouth, 1857–65, 1868–80.

³⁸³ William Digges LaTouche, ch. Grand Canal Company.

³⁸⁴ Benjamin Lee Guinness (1798–1868), brewer and restorer of St. Patrick's Cathedral, 1860–5; cons. MP for Dublin, 1865–8.

³⁸⁵ Francis Codd, sec. Dublin Chamber of Commerce.

³⁸⁶ Richard John Griffith (1784–1878), ch. bd. of wks., 1850–64.

³⁸⁷ John Thomas Ball (1815–98), judge of the Consistorial Court until his resig. in 1865; sol.-geni. Ireland, 1868; atty.-genl. Ireland, 1868, 1874–5; Cons. MP for Dublin University, 1868–75 when he was appointed Irish ld. chanc., 1875–80.

³⁸⁸ Inspector of Released Convicts.

³⁸⁹ See entry for 6 May 1865.

³⁹⁰ Isaac Butt (1813–79), prof, of pol. econ., Trinity College, Dublin; MP for Youghal, 1852–65; defended Fenian prisoners, 1865–8; MP for Limerick, 1871–9; founder of Irish Home Rule party, 1870–9.

³⁹¹ On Lady Wodehouse's distaste for the drawing room, see Walling, R. A. J., The Diaries of John Bright (New York, 1931), 325.Google Scholar

³⁹² See entry for 17 Feb. 1865.

³⁹³ James Molyneux Caulfield (1820–92), Lib. MP for Co. Armagh, 1847–57; succ. as 3rd Earl of Charlemont, 1863.

³⁹⁴ Joseph Wilton (1722–1803), sculptor to George III.

³⁹⁵ See entry for 2 March 1866.

³⁹⁶ See entry for 31 Dec. 1864

³⁹⁷ Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt (1836–1904).

³⁹⁸ Henry J. Brownrigg, insp.-genl. of the constabulary since the 1840s.

³⁹⁹ Irish poor law com.; brother of Nassau W. Senior.

⁴⁰⁰ Lady Rachel Butler.

⁴⁰¹ Albert J. Wodehouse, a.d.c.

⁴⁰² Hon. Ralph Harbord (1833–78), 6th son of 3rd Baron Suffield.

⁴⁰³ Bellew also had recommendations from Palmerston, Russell, Clarendon and Brand. Wodehouse to Grey, 24 March 1865, KP6 MS.eng.c.4023, f. 164.

⁴⁰⁴ Stephen Catterson Smith (1806–72), pres, of Royal Hibernian Academy, 1859–64.

⁴⁰⁵ Tristram Kennedy (1805–85), Lib. MP for Louth, 1865–8.

⁴⁰⁶ Joseph Neale MacKenna (1819–1906), Lib. MP for Youghal, July 1865–8, 1874–85; unsucc. contested Tralee, Feb. 1865.

⁴⁰⁷ Daniel O'Donoghue (1833–1889), Lib. MP for Tralee, 1865–85.

⁴⁰⁸ Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), pres, of US, 1861–5.

⁴⁰⁹ Edward Welby Pugin (1834–75), architect noted for extensive work on R.C. cathedrals.

⁴¹⁰ John Butler, by courtesy 12th Lord Dunboyne (1716–1800), R.C. Bishop of Cork, 1763–86; succ. to peerage, 1785.

⁴¹¹ Joseph Matthews.

⁴¹² Benjamin Whitworth (1816–93), Lib. MP for Drogheda, July 1865–9, 1880–5, for Kilkenny city, 1875–80.

⁴¹³ Edward Anthony John Preston, 13th Viscount Gormanston (1796–1876).

⁴¹⁴ Sir William Meredyth Somerville, Baron Athlumney (Irish), Baron Meredyth (UK) (1802–73), ch. sec. Ireland, 1847–52.

⁴¹⁵ During the International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, which opened in Dublin on 9 May.

⁴¹⁶ Sir John Barrington.

⁴¹⁷ Thomas D'arcy McGee (1825–68), member of Montreal assembly, 1858–62; pres, counc., 1864. Assassinated 7 April 1868. On Wodehouse's particular interest in the McGee case, see extensive newscuttings in KP6 MS.eng.d.2447.

⁴¹⁸ Sir William Francis Napier (1785–1860), fought in Peninsular War; wrote History of the War in the Peninsula (6 vols., 1828–1840)Google Scholar; made general and knighted, 1848.

⁴¹⁹ Sir Charles James Napier (1782–1853), fought in Peninsular War and in US, 1813; maj.-genl., 1837; conquered Sind, 1843; It.-genl., 1846.

⁴²⁰ Sir Hugh, 1st Viscount Gough (1779–1869), fought in Peninsular War; maj.-genl., 1830; commdr.-in-ch. in India, from 1843; fld. marshal, 1862.

⁴²¹ Sir Hugh Henry Rose (1801–85), served in Crimea and during Indian mutiny; commdr.-in-ch. India, 1860–5; commdr.-in-ch. Ireland, 1865–70; cr. Baron Strathnairn, 1866; genl., 1867; fld. marshal, 1877.

⁴²² Sir Philip Crampton (1777–1858), surgeon at Meath Hospital from 1798. Lodge on Lake Bray presented for services to the Powerscourt family.

⁴²³ George Frederick Ernest Albert, succ. as George V, 1910.

⁴²⁴ Col. John Stewart Wood, insp. genl. of police.

⁴²⁵ Wenman Clarence Walpole Coke (1828–1907), lib. MP for Norfolk E., 1858–65.

⁴²⁶ Two cons, were elected on 20 July, Edward Howes and Clare Sewell Read. On the ‘extraordinary mess’ made by the Liberals in both East and West Norfolk, see Robert Gurdon to Wodehouse, Aug. 1865, KP1 3/1.

⁴²⁷ Sir Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl Strafford (1593–1641), ld. lt., 1640–1; sent to the Tower and executed.

⁴²⁸ For the list of ‘legal lights’, see KP6 MS.Engl.b.2048, f. 52.

⁴²⁹ Under provisions of the Peace Preservation Act (19th and 20th Viet., c. 36 (1856)). See Grey to Wodehouse, 21 June 1865; Wodehouse to Grey, 22 June 1865, KP6 MS.eng.c.4027, ff. 82–94.

⁴³⁰ Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (Ireland) (1812–71), Cons. MP for Glamorganshire, 1837–51, when he succ. as Irish earl; cr. Baron Kenry (UK), 1866.

⁴³¹ George Gavin (1810–80), Lib. MP for Limerick, 1859–74.

⁴³² Francis William Russell (1800–71), Lib. MP for Limerick, 1852–71.

⁴³³ George Butler (1819–90), vice-princ. of Cheltenham College, 1857–65; princ. of Liverpool College, 1866–82; canon of Winchester from 1882.

⁴³⁴ Aubrey de Vere (1814–1902), poet and miscellaneous author; reluctantly supported union; convert to R.C., 1871.

⁴³⁵ Windham Thomas, Wyndham Quin, Lord Adare (1841–1926), succ. his father as 4th Earl of Dunraven, 1871.

⁴³⁶ Patrick McDowell (1799–1870), sculptor and member of the Royal Academy from 1846; sculpted the European group of the Albert Memorial. By May 1855 more than £1,000 had been raised to erect the statue in memory of John Charles Henry Fitzgibbon, Lady Wodehouse's brother, who had been slain at the Battle of Balaclava while serving with the 8th Hussars. The monument was badly damaged by an IRA bomb in 1929, and replaced with a bronze group commemorating Republicans who fought in the war of independence, 1916–22.

On the controversy surrounding the original placement of the Fitzgibbon monument, see Lenihan, N., Limerick, its History and Antiquities (Cork, 1866), 513.Google Scholar

⁴³⁷ William Brabazon (1803–87), Whig MP for Dublin Co., 1830–2, 1837–41; succ. as 11th Earl of Meath, 1851.

⁴³⁸ Stephen Richard Glynne (1807–74), Cons. MP for Flintshire, 1831–47; Gladstone's brother-in-law.

⁴³⁹ Thomas Edward Taylor (1812–83), Cons. MP for Co. Dublin, 1841–83; park. sec. to treas., 1866–8; ch. d. of Lanc., 1868–9, 1874–80.

⁴⁴⁰ Charles William White (1838–90), Lib. MP for Tipperary, 1866–75.

⁴⁴¹ Ion Trent Hamilton (1839–98), Cons. MP for Co. Dublin, 1863–85.

⁴⁴² Where Cons. Edward Howes and Clare Sewell Read defeated Sir Thomas Beauchamp and Wenman Coke.

⁴⁴³ Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), founder of modern school of objective historical writing; prof, Univ. of Berlin, 1825–71.

⁴⁴⁴ Jonathan Pim (1806–85), Dublin merchant and manufacturer; Lib. MP for Dublin City, 1865–74.

⁴⁴⁵ Victor Townley, Derbyshire murderer who committed suicide in Feb. 1865 by jumping from the staircase of Pentonville Prison.

⁴⁴⁶ William Ulick Tristram St. Lawrence (1827–1909), state steward to ld. lt. Ireland, 1855–8, 1859–64; Lib. MP for Galway, 1868–74, when he succ. as 4th Earl of Howth.

⁴⁴⁷ Charles Robert Barry (1824–97), crown pros, for Dublin, 1859–65; Lib. MP for Dungarvan, 1865–8; Irish sol. gen., 1868–70.

⁴⁴⁸ Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas (1822–72), ch. sec. Ireland, 1852, 1858–9, 1866–8; Cons. MP for Kildare, 1847–52, for Coleraine, 1852–7, for Cockermouth, 1857–67, when he succ. as 6th Earl Mayo; viceroy of India, 1868–72. On Wodehouse's assessment of Mayo's character, see JE, 27.

⁴⁴⁹ John Bagwell (1811–83), Lib. MP for Clonmell, 1857–74.

⁴⁵⁰ John De la Poer Beresford, 4th Marquis of Waterford (1814–66), succ. 1859.

⁴⁵¹ On Wodehouse's role in securing the prohibition of cattle imports from the United Kingdom, ordered by Grey on August 25, see Wodehouse, to Palmerston, , 22 08 1865Google Scholar, PP GC/WO/5/1–4; Wodehouse, to Russell, , 22 08 1865Google Scholar, R1P 30/22/28, ff. 264–6; Grey, to Palmerston, , 26 08 1865Google Scholar, PP GC/GR/2574/1–3; and general papers relating to cattle plague, KP6 MS.eng.b.2047, ff. 1–108.

⁴⁵² Edward Askew Sothern (1826–81), actor, born in Liverpool; made his mark in the United States.

⁴⁵³ Corry Connellan, sec. to Lord Carlisle as Viceroy.

⁴⁵⁴ Sir Thomas Esmonde (1786–1868), Liberal MP for Wexford, 1841–6. Earlier in the year, Wodehouse had written that the Esmondes were ‘an influential Roman Catholic family who had been steady supporters of the govt. in spite of priesdy intimidation …’. 16 March 1865, KP6 MS.eng.c.4023, f. 9.

⁴⁵⁵ John Esmonde (1826–76), Liberal MP for Waterford, 1852–76.

⁴⁵⁶ Sir James Power (1800–77), Lib. MP for Wexford, 1835–47, 1865–8.

⁴⁵⁷ William Stuart Knox (1826–1900), Cons. MP for Dungannon, 1851–74.

⁴⁵⁸ Sir Frederic William Heygate (1822–94), Cons. MP for Co. Londonderry, 1859–74.

⁴⁵⁹ Sir Henry Hervey Bruce (1820–1907), Cons. MP for Coleraine, 1862–74.

⁴⁶⁰ Sir Edmund Charles Macnaghten (1790–1876), Cons. MP for Antrim, 1847–52.

⁴⁶¹ Andrew Mulholland (1791–1866), cotton and linen manufacturer; mayor of Belfast, 1845.

⁴⁶² Richard de Burgho (1821–73), of Limerick.

⁴⁶³ Actually, Sir Amoricus Tristram.

⁴⁶⁴ Thomas St. Lawrence, 3rd Earl of Howth (1803–74), Irish peer; ld. lt. Co. Dublin; son-in-law of 13th Earl of Clanricarde.

⁴⁶⁵ Having watched the Fenians for months, on 1 Sept. Wodehouse informed Russell that he was ‘quite prepared to run some risk of exceeding the law’ if it were necessary to obtain ‘tangible proofs’ of the treasonable activity he was sure was taking place. On developments leading to the arrests of 15 Sept., see Wodehouse, to Russell, , 1 09 1865Google Scholar, R1P 30/22/28, ff. 269–70; Wodehouse, to Grey, , 3 09 1865Google Scholar, copy, PP GC/GR/2577/encl. 2; Wodehouse, to Grey, , 12 09 1865Google Scholar, copy, PP GC/GR/2578, enc. 1; Wodehouse, to Grey, , 16 09 1865Google Scholar, PP GC/GR/2579, enc. 2; Broin, Leon Ó, Fenian Fever, An Anglo-American Dilemma (New York, 1971), 8–29.Google Scholar

⁴⁶⁶ Presumably involving the scandal which led to the dissolution of Lady Clare's marriage to Maurice Crosbie Moore in 1825, which enabled her to marry the 3rd Earl of Clare. Wodehouse apparently announced his intention to marry by suggestion to his mother that she would find three ‘insuperable objections to her future daughter-in-law; 1st that her mother had run away; 2nd, that her sister had run away; 3rd, that she was an Irishwoman’. Cited in Stirling, A.M. (ed.), The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope (2 vols., London, 1913), II, 216–17.Google Scholar

⁴⁶⁷ William Govett Romaine (1815–93), barrister; second sec. to admiralty, 1857–69.

⁴⁶⁸ Recording impressions of a lengthy conversation with Wodehouse while in transit on board the Connaught was John Thadeus Delane. See Dasent, Arthur Irwin, John Thadeus Delane, Editor of ‘The Times’: His Life and Correspondence (2 vols-, London, 1908), II, 142–4Google Scholar.

⁴⁶⁹ Sir William Verner (1782–1871), Cons. MP for Armagh Co., 1832–68.

⁴⁷⁰ See entry for 17 Feb. 1865.

⁴⁷¹ Edward Adolphus Seymour (1804–85), MP for Okehampton, 1830–4, for Totnes, 1834–55, when he succ. as 12th Duke of Somerset; 1st ld. adm., 1859–66.

⁴⁷² Louisa Dillon.

⁴⁷³ According to Delane, Wodehouse believed that the Queen ought to have sent for Gladstone rather than Russell, and that the Liberals ‘ought to have a long banishment from office, and only return when the old batch are fairly out of the way’. Dasent, , Life of Delane, II, 150Google Scholar; cf. entries for 18, 24 Oct. 1865.

⁴⁷⁴ James Stephens (1825–1901), a founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood; Head Centre, 1858–66; founded Irish People, 1863. On Stephens' revolutionary activities, see Ryan, D., The Fenian Chief (Dublin, 1967).Google Scholar

⁴⁷⁵ Thomas Clarke Luby (1821–1901), briefly imprisoned following abortive uprising of 1848; co-editor of the Irish People; arrested during govt. raid of 15 Sept. Luby sought damages for unlawful entry into the newspaper's offices. Wodehouse to Clarendon, 11 Nov. 1865, C1P, C99.

⁴⁷⁶ James Henry Monaghan (1804–78), ch. just, common pleas, 1850; com. of natl, ed., 1861.

⁴⁷⁷ Wodehouse later told Margot Asquith of a letter which began: ‘My Lord, we intend to kill you at the corner of Kildare Street; but we would like you to know that there is nothing personal in it!’ Carter, M. Bonham (ed.), The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (London, 1962), 100–1.Google Scholar

⁴⁷⁸ William Malcolmson.

⁴⁷⁹ On Wodehouse's assessment of the value of statistical inquiry, see his speech of 24 Nov. 1864, in KP6 MS.Engl.b.2048, f. 9.

⁴⁸⁰ Patrick O'Leary. The Pagan; in charge of enticing soldiers to join the Fenians, was arrested in November 1864 and convicted of tampering with the allegiance of the troops. See Devoy, J., Recollections (New York, 1929), 133–9.Google Scholar

⁴⁸¹ John O'Leary (1830–1907), ed. of The Irish People; arrested 1865 and sentenced to twenty years in prison, released and exiled, 1874. See Bourke, Marcus, John O'Leary: A Study in Irish Separatism (Tralee, 1967), 89–95.Google Scholar

⁴⁸² See entry for 14 May 1866.

⁴⁸³ Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1831–1915), business manager of The Irish People; sentenced to twenty years in prison; released and exiled, 1871.

⁴⁸⁴ Sir Rowland Blennerhasset (1839–1909), Lib. MP for Galway, 1865–74, for Kerry, 1880–5.

⁴⁸⁵ Wodehouse wrote to his mother that the story originated in ‘a silly mistake of the engine driver who mistook a blow from a fallen telegraph post for a shot’, suggesting the tension which then existed in Dublin. Wodehouse, to Wodehouse, Anne, 9 01 1866Google Scholar, KP1 15/K2/18. On the threat of assassination generally, see Wodehouse, to Currie, Raikes, 23 12 1865Google Scholar, in Liberal by Principle, 108Google Scholar; Kimberley, to Clarendon, , 30 04 1866Google Scholar, C1P, C99.

⁴⁸⁶ On the proclamations, see Wodehouse, to Russell, , 14 01 1865Google Scholar, R1P 30/22/16a.

⁴⁸⁷ See Wodehouse, to Currie, Raikes, 23 12 1865Google Scholar, in Liberal by Principle, 108Google Scholar; Wodehouse, to Russell, , 18 01 1865Google Scholar, R1P 30/22/16a; correspondence in KP6 MS.eng.c.4039/4040.

⁴⁸⁸ As Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster.

⁴⁸⁹ William Stacpoole (1830–79), capt. of Clare militia, 1855–65; Lib. MP for Ennis, 1860–79.

⁴⁹⁰ William Nicholas Keogh (1817–78), Irish sol.-genl., 1853–5; Irish atty.-genl., 1855–6; judge of the court of common pleas from 1856. In a panic because he had received threatening letters. Wodehouse, to Clarendon, , 11 11 1865Google Scholar, C1P C99.

⁴⁹¹ Sir James William Mackey.

⁴⁹² Lt-Col. Henry Musters, master-of-the-horse.

⁴⁹³ Capt. Henry Arkwright, a.d.c.

⁴⁹⁴ Capt. Edmund J. Boyle, a.d.c.

⁴⁹⁵ Henry Arthur Herbert (1815–1866), ch. sec. Ireland, 1857–8; Lib. MP for Kerry, 1847–66.

⁴⁹⁶ Cavendish v. Lady Elinor Cavendish and Lord Cecil Gordon. Verdict for petitioner and assessment of damages on co-respondent of £10,000. The Times, 3 03 1866, 9Google Scholar. On Lady Elinor's ‘bitter repentence’, see her letter to Kimberley, 26 Feb. 1883, KP1 15/K2/21. See entry for 17 Feb. 1865.

⁴⁹⁷ However, cf. entry for 1 April 1866. On Wodehouse's ambivalent attitude toward the Irish, see Powell, J. and Kennedy, P., ‘Lord Kimberley and the Foundation of Liberal Irish Policy: Annotations on George Sigerson's Modern Ireland, 1868’, Irish Historical StudiesGoogle Scholar, forthcoming 1998.

⁴⁹⁸ See Wodehouse's glowing recommendation to Gladstone, knowing that he took ‘much interest in these appointments’. Kimberley, to Gladstone, , 10 04 1866Google Scholar, GP 44224, if. 46–50.

⁴⁹⁹ On Robert Lowe's infamous speech of 13 March, see Winter, J., Robert Lowe (Toronto, 1976), 212–15Google Scholar. Spencer Perceval (1762–1812) and John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751–1838), were adamant opponents of early reform.

⁵⁰⁰ Russell, to Wodehouse, , 14 05 1866Google Scholar, KP6 MS.eng.c.4475, f. 66.

⁵⁰¹ See Rosebery's notice of this ‘unusual’ piece of vanity, Kimberley Memoir, herein, 491.

⁵⁰² For a good visual record of farm architecture on the Kimberley estate, see sales catalogue, The Earl of Kimberley's Estate, Jacobson-Stops & Staff, 1958.

⁵⁰³ Fortescue felt that he could ‘fairly expect’ Wodehouse to take the handsome and friendly course of waiving his objections. Fortescue to Kimberley, 30 May 1866, KP MS.eng.c.4047, ff. 95–9. On the oddly recurring collision of ambitions between the two, see Wodehouse, to Russell, , 21 11 1865Google Scholar, R1P 30/22/15g, f. 112; Wodehouse, to Clarendon, , 5 11 1865Google Scholar, C1P C99; Wodehouse, to Russell, , 12 12 1865Google Scholar, R1P 30/22/15h, ff. 62–3; Kimberley, to Fortescue, , 1 06 1866Google Scholar, KP6, Ms.eng.4048, ff. 8–9; Dasent, , Life of Delene, II, 161Google Scholar; Extracts, Kimberley memoir, herein; CJ, 153–8Google Scholar; Carlingford Journal, CfP 63688.

⁵⁰⁴ George John Sackville-West, 5th Earl Delawarr (1791–1869).

⁵⁰⁵ Hamilla, fifth child of paternal uncle, Alfred Wodehouse.

⁵⁰⁶ John Marshall, 2nd son of Henry Cowper Marshall, Westwood Hall, Leeds.

⁵⁰⁷ Kimberley paid particular attention to the trial of Sergeant Macarthy of the 64th Regiment, fearing that military authorities in England were ‘not awake to the very dangerous character of the attempts of the Fenians to undermine the loyalty of the Irish soldiers’. Kimberley, to Russell, , 6 01 1866Google Scholar, R1P 30/22/16a; Wodehouse, to Clarendon, , 29 03 1866Google Scholar, C1P g99C; Kimberley, to Rose, , copy, 17 06 1866Google Scholar, KP6 MS.eng.d.4048.

⁵⁰⁸ Daniel Bagot.

⁵⁰⁹ Arthur Divett Hayter (1835–1917), ret. as capt., Grenadier Guards, 1866; Lib. MP for Wells, 1865–8, for Bath, 1873–85, for Walsall, 1893–5, 1900–5. Secretly encouraged by Disraeli, the young Whig Hayter moved a hostile motion against the government's redistribution scheme. See Smith, F. B., The Making of the Second Reform Bill (Cambridge, 1966), 98–102.Google Scholar

⁵¹⁰ William Warburton.

⁵¹¹ In a private letter to Hammond, Kimberley added that it would show that ‘Stephens' influence with the Brotherhood’ was not small, and would ‘confirm the Canadians in detestation of them, and force the United States Gt. to act against them to some extent’. 14 June 1866, HmP2.

⁵¹² See too Kimberley's mixed estimate of Carlisle in Powell and Kennedy, ‘Lord Kimberley and the Foundations of Liberal Irish Policy’, Irish Historical Studies forthcoming.

⁵¹³ Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton (1812–61), Irish viceroy for ten months during 1852–3, and for sixteen months during 1858–9; er. 1st Earl Winton in U.K. peerage, 1859.

⁵¹⁴ Ulick Canning de Burgh, Lord Dunkellin (1827–67), lt. col., Coldstream Guards; Lib. MP for Galway bor., 1857–9; Galway co., 1865–7.

⁵¹⁵ Connellan reported to Clarendon that Kimberly had been asked to stay on as Lord Lieutenant. ‘Had I been asked,’ Kimberly wrote to Clarendon, ‘my answer would have been unequivocal refusal.’ 4 July 1866, CIP MS.Clar.dep. c. 99, f. 197.

⁵¹⁶ On negotiations, see DD1, 225–6.Google Scholar

⁵¹⁷ James Hamilton, 2nd Marquis of Abercorn (1811–85), Irish ld. lt., 1866–8, 1874–6; raised to the dukedom, 1868. The post had first been offered to Manners. See Whibley, C., Lord John Manners and his Friends (2 vols., London, 1925), II, 136–40.Google Scholar

⁵¹⁸ Even moderate nationalists were, however, glad to see Kimberley go, having consistently criticised him for harsh treatment of Fenians and use of coercion. See doggeral from Nation, 11 Aug. 1866.

⁵¹⁹ After the Reform League was denied access to Hyde Park, the railings were pushed over and some 200 people injured. See Richter, D., Riotous Victorians (Athens, Ohio, 1981), 51–61.Google Scholar

⁵²⁰ Sir Francis Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas, Lord Elcho (1818–94), leading Adullamite; succ. as 10th Earl of Wemyss, 1883.

⁵²¹ Or to return correspondence. Apologising to Larcom for his sloth, Kimberley maintained that he was ‘too lazy to do anything but walk about in the open air shooting a stray wild duck or looking after my harvest which is much better fun than looking after Fenians’. 2 Aug. 1866, LcP 7694.

⁵²² Jervoise Smith (1828–84), partner in banking firm of Smith, Payne, and Smiths; Lib. MP for Penryn, 1866–8.

⁵²³ Sir Archibald Islay Campbell (1825–66), Cons. MP for Argyleshire, 1851–7; contemporary of Kimberley at Eton and Christ Church. See John Wodehouse to Anne Wodehouse, Feb. 1843, in Liberal by Principle, 55.Google Scholar

⁵²⁴ Sir Charles Douglas (1806–87), priv. sec. to Lord Ripon, 1830–4; lib. MP for Warwick, 1837–52, for Banbury, 1859–65.

⁵²⁵ Clare Sewell Read (1826–1905), prosperous Norfolk tenant farmer; Cons. MP for Norfolk E., 1865–8, for Norfolk S., 1868–80, for Norfolk W., 1884–5.

⁵²⁶ Frederick Walpole (1822–76), Cons. MP for N. Norfolk, 1868–76.

⁵²⁷ Robert Fellowes (?-1869) of Shotesham park.

⁵²⁸ George Thomas Keppel (1799–1891), Lib. MP for E. Norfolk, 1832–5, for Lymington, 1847–50; priv. sec. to Lord John Russell, 1846; succ. as 6th Earl of Albermarle, 1851.

⁵²⁹ In 1856 William John Legh m. Kimberley's cousin, Emily Jane, da. of Rev. Charles-Nourse Wodehouse, Can. of Norwich, and Lady Jane Wodehouse.

⁵³⁰ Sir Michael Costa (1810–84), dir. of music at Covent Garden theatre from 1846; composed the oratorio ‘Naaman’, 1864; resident in England from 1829.

⁵³¹ Sholto John Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton (1818–84).

⁵³² George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton, and Earl of Durham (1828–79).

⁵³³ Lord Garlies, tide by which 9th Earl of Galloway (1800–73) sat in Lords.

⁵³⁴ This sentence quoted verbatim in the Kimberley Memoir, herein, 492.

⁵³⁵ Holkham Hall, country seat of the Dukes of Leicester.

⁵³⁶ Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh (1844–1900), succ. as D. of E., 1866.

⁵³⁷ George Granville William Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland (1828–92).

⁵³⁸ Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841–1907).

⁵³⁹ Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt (1836–1904).

⁵⁴⁰ Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly (1847–1937).

⁵⁴¹ Cf. Malmesbury's assessment that Disraeli had ‘dissatisfied the House by too long and ambiguous a speech’. Memoirs of an Ex-Minister: An Autobiography (new edn, London, 1885), 627.Google Scholar

⁵⁴² To seize arms and ammunition stores at Chester Castle.

⁵⁴³ Kimberley wrote to Larcom that ‘men's minds are wholly occupied with Reform’. 18 Feb. 1867, LcP 7593.

⁵⁴⁴ Charles Francis Adams (1807–86), US min. to Great Britain, 1861–68.

⁵⁴⁵ See Liberal by Principle, 42.Google Scholar

⁵⁴⁶ Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil (1830–1903), Cons. MP for Stamford, 1853–68; India sec., 1866–7, 1874–6; for. sec., 1878–80, 1885–6, 1887–2, 1895–1900; pr. min., 1885–6, 1886, 1887–92, 1895–1902 succ, as Viscount Cranborne, 1865, as 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, 1868.

⁵⁴⁷ Francis Blackburne (1782–1867), ld. chan. for Ireland, 1852, 1866–7.

⁵⁴⁸ Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple Nugent Brydes Chandos Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1823–89), pres, of council, 1866–67; col. sec., 1867–8; gov. of Madras, 1875–80. Even Disraeli considered Buckingham a poor second. Monypenny, W. and Buckle, G., Life of Disraeli (6 vols., London, 1910–1920), IV, 504–5.Google Scholar

⁵⁴⁹ Walter Bagehot (1826–77), ed. of Economist, 1860–1877.Google Scholar

⁵⁵⁰ Late in life, Kimberley recalled how curious it was ‘now to reflect upon his unpopularity as leader’. Kimberley Memoir, herein, 492. See too entry for 9 July 1867.

⁵⁵¹ Of the Reform League. Described in Annals of our Time as ‘orderly as an Exeter Hall meeting’, 774–5.Google Scholar

⁵⁵² See p. 25, herein.

⁵⁵³ See entry for 16 July 1864.

⁵⁵⁴ On the danger posed by Michael Burke, leader of the Fenian raid in Canada, see Kimberley, to Clarendon, , 4 06 1866Google Scholar, C1P C 99.

⁵⁵⁵ Sir Colman Michael O'Loghlen (1819–77), Lib. MP for Co. Clare, 1863–77.

⁵⁵⁶ James George Henry Stopford, 5th Baron Courtown (1823–1914).

⁵⁵⁷ Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl of Bandon (1810–77).

⁵⁵⁸ Abraham Hayward (1801–84), essayist who wrote widely for the Quarterly Review, Edinburgh's Magazine and Fraser's Magazine.

⁵⁵⁹ Hugh MacCalmont Cairns (1819–85), Cons. MP for Belfast, 1852–66; ld. chanc., 1868, 1874–80; cr. Baron Cairns of Garmoyle, Antrim, 1867, Viscount Garmoyle and Earl Cairns (UK peerage), 1878.

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⁵⁶¹ Christine Nilsson (1843–1921), Swedish soprano and violinist.

⁵⁶² Robert Adam Philips Haldane-Duncan (1841–98), succ. as 3rd Earl of Camperdown, 1867.

⁵⁶³ Albert Edmund Parker, 3rd Earl Morley (1843–1905), u.-sec. war, 1880–5; first com. of pub. wks, 1886; resigned over Home Rule.

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⁵⁶⁵ Constantine Musurus (1807–91), Turkish amb.

⁵⁶⁶ Mehmet Fuad Pasha (1814–69), Turkish for. min., 1852–3, 1853–5, 1858, 1867–8; grand vizier, 1861–8.

⁵⁶⁷ In a series of articles in The Times supporting cumulative voting. If adopted the system would allow John Walter (1818–94), proprietor of The Times, to be elected. Lih. MP for Nottingham, 1847–59, for Berkshire, 1859–65, 1868–85.

⁵⁶⁸ On 30 May 1867, Mill had argued for proportional representation: ‘the majority should be represented by a majority, and the minority by a minority’. See Kinzer, B., Robson, A. and Robson, J., A Moralist in and out of Parliament: John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865–1868 (Toronto, 1992), 100–7.Google Scholar

⁵⁶⁹ Frederick Elwin Watson.

⁵⁷⁰ William Houghton Clabburn.

⁵⁷¹ Charles Savile Roundell (1827–1906), priv. sec. to ld. lt., Earl Spencer, 1869–71; Lib. MP for Grantham, 1880–5, Skipton, Yorkshire, W. Riding, 1892–5. On Kimberley's favourable estimation of Roundell, see Kimberley to Spencer, 12 January 1869, in Liberal by Principle, 115–16.Google Scholar

⁵⁷² Maude Stanley (1832–1915), younger sister of Lady Airlie.

⁵⁷³ William Hepworth Thompson (1810–86), canon of Ely, 1853; master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1866–86.

⁵⁷⁴ On the realization of Kimberley's fears, see entries for 20 June 1868, 14 May 1870, 28 May 1871, 1 Jan. 1872. Kimberley, Lady to Packe, Alice, 14 10 1872Google Scholar, PkP 1749/38/8.

⁵⁷⁵ Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe (1841–1912), col. 5th Dragoon Guards, 1866; maj. genl., 1870; lt.-genl., 1881.

⁵⁷⁶ Née Vernon, m. George Currie, 1850.Google Scholar

⁵⁷⁷ On 23 Nov., for the murder of a policeman. Cf. Kimberley to deGrey, 25 Nov. 1867, in Liberal by Principle, 112.Google Scholar

⁵⁷⁸ See entry for 12 Jan. 1868.

⁵⁷⁹ Edward Thornton Wodehouse (1802–74), rear-adml.; Kimberley's paternal uncle. Cecilia and Anne-Elizabeth-Laura were the admiral's daughters.

⁵⁸⁰ Sir Francis George Manningham Boileau (1830–1900), son of Sir John Peter Boileau.

⁵⁸¹ Sir Henry Durrant, of Scottow, Norfolk; m. Alexandrina Barton, 1863.

⁵⁸² Campbell Wodehouse (1826–68), rector of Alderford, Norfolk; collateral cousin.

⁵⁸³ John Francis Maguire (1815–1872), Lib. MP for Dungarvan, 1852–65, for Cork, 1865–72; proposed a motion for a committee on the state of Ireland, describing constitutional liberty there as on a par with Morocco and Abyssinia. 3 Hansard 190 (10 03 1868), 1288–1314.Google Scholar

⁵⁸⁴ Gathorne Hardy and Lord Mayo were known to be the staunchest defenders of the Church of Ireland in the cabinet.

⁵⁸⁵ Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson (1806–85), advocate of the Atlantic cable; dep. gov. of Hudson's Bay Company.

⁵⁸⁶ On the circumstances surrounding Kimberley's administration, see Rich, E.E., Hudson's Bay Company, 1670–1870 (3 vols., New York), III, 878Google Scholar. However, note numerous errors in the paragraph of biography. Cf., on various points, Liberal by Principle. Correspondence and papers relating to company business may be found in KP6 MS.eng.c.4072–3.

⁵⁸⁷ John Whalley (1653–1724), described in the DNB as a ‘quack’, selling universal medicines and astrological works, and publishing a ‘libellous weekly journal’, Whalley's News Letter, from 1714.

⁵⁸⁸ Henry Edward Manning (1808–92), ultramontane Roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster, 1865; cardinal, 1875; published Feb. 1868, A Pastoral Letter … Quinquagesima Sunday.

⁵⁸⁹ Sir William Beechey (1753–1839), portrait painter to Queen Charlotte. On the portrait of Wodehouse, see Currie, , Recollections, I, 5.Google Scholar

⁵⁹⁰ Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (1819–94), Lib. MP for Portsmouth, 1852–7; gov.-genl. of Canada, 1861–8; cr. UK peerage 1866.

⁵⁹¹ Edward Pleydell Bouverie (1818–89), Lib. MP for Kilmarnock, 1844–74.

⁵⁹² Denis Joseph Rearden (1817–85), lib. MP for Athlone, 1865–8, asked whether the Queen's delicate health, which prevented her carrying out her public duties, required her abdication. 3 Hansard 192 (22 05 1868), 711–12Google Scholar. Cf. entry for 9 July 1867.

⁵⁹³ See entries for 16 July 1864, 23 May 1867.

⁵⁹⁴ Samuel Wilberforce (1805–73), bp. of Oxford, 1845–69, was a highchurchman and close ecclesiastical acquaintance of Gladstone. In committee on Gladstone's Church Rates bill, Lord Cairns ammended the measure with the support of the low church bishops, in a manner which pleased Dissenters, the existing rating system being preserved, less its compulsory aspect.

⁵⁹⁵ William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1817–85), Peelite.

⁵⁹⁶ Augustus Henry, 6th Baron Vernon (1829–83).

⁵⁹⁷ Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl of Beauchamp (1830–91), Cons. MP for Tewkesbury, 1857–63, for Worcestershire, 1863–6.

⁵⁹⁸ James Graham, 7th Marquess and 4th Duke of Montrose (1799–1874), post.-genl., 1866–8.

⁵⁹⁹ Marcus Gervais Beresford (1801–85), archbp. of Armagh, 1862–85. See 3 Hansard 193 (17 07 1868), 1862–3.Google Scholar

⁶⁰⁰ Jacob Henry Tillett (1818–92), solicitor; twice mayor of Norwich; Lib. MP for Norwich, 1870–1, 1875, 1880–5.

⁶⁰¹ Cf. Rich, , Hudson's Bay Company, III, 881–2.Google Scholar

⁶⁰² Frederick William Cadogan (1821–1904), Liberal MP for Cricklade, 1868–74; m. 1851 Adelaide, da. of 1st Marquis of Anglesey.

⁶⁰³ Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon (1807–88), brewer and banker; Cons. MP for Yarmouth, 1852–7, 1859–68, and for North Norfolk, 1868–85.

⁶⁰⁴ In the Norfolk, East election of July 1865, Lord Suffield with little consultation refused to throw over the unpopular Wenman Coke. For a full report of the ‘extraordinary mess’, see Robert Gurdon to Kimberley, [Aug. 1865], KP1 3/1.

⁶⁰⁵ Sir John Peter Boileau's country seat.

⁶⁰⁶ In the election on 21 Nov., H.L. Hudson received 1,679 votes; Conservatives C.S. Read and E. Howes received 3,097 and 3,055, respectively.

⁶⁰⁷ Rich, , Hudson's Bay Company, III, 883.Google Scholar

⁶⁰⁸ Albert Wodehouse (1840–1914), capt; son of Kimberley's uncle, rear-adm. Edward Thornton-Wodehouse.

⁶⁰⁹ George Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea (1840–1915) s. as 5th earl Cadogan 1873, u-sec. War 1875–8, u-sec. Colonies 1878–80, Ld. Privy Seal 1886–92, Ld. Lt. Ireland 1895–1902, m. Lady Craven 1865.

⁶¹⁰ McCalmont's Parliamentary Poll Book (8th edn, Brighton, 1971)Google Scholar places the numbers at 2,630, 2,563, 2,235 and 2,088.

⁶¹¹ Explaining at length his volte-face on the established church. ‘A Chapter of Autobiography’, Gleanings of Past Years (7 vols., London, 1879), VII, 97–151.Google Scholar

⁶¹² On ‘lying articles’, see Galbraith, John S., The Hudson's Bay Company as an Imperial Factor, 1821–1869 (New York, 1977), 420.Google Scholar

⁶¹³ Palmerston had offered the Colonial Office in Oct. 1855. Gladstone considered the 14th Earl's influence ‘monstrous’. DD1, 136–9Google Scholar; Tollemache, L., Talks with Mr. Gladstone (3rd rev. edn, London, 1903), 21Google Scholar; considerably expanded in JE, 1.Google Scholar

⁶¹⁴ I Kings 21:24.

⁶¹⁵ This phrase omitted from JE.

⁶¹⁶ He accepted the Chanc. of the Duchy of Lancaster.

⁶¹⁷ John Locke (1805–80), Liberal MP for Southwark, 1857–80.

⁶¹⁸ Seeking to unseat the two Conservatives elected on 23 November, for employing proscribed canvassers; see correspondence and related papers in KP1 3/1.

⁶¹⁹ Thomas William Coke, and Earl of Leicester (1822–1909), ld. It. Norfolk, 1846–1906.

⁶²⁰ Edmond Wodehouse having been an unsuccessful candidate for North Norfolk in the November election, see Kimberley to Raikes Currie, 5 Aug. 1868, and notes in Liberal by Principle, 113.Google Scholar

⁶²¹ William Jenner (1815–98), established distinct identities of typhus and typhoid fevers.

⁶²² See introduction.

⁶²³ William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley (1801–81), Lib. MP for Oxford, 1847–53; ld. chanc., 1868–72.

⁶²⁴ James Anthony Lawson had been both Atty.-genl. and Sol.-genl, for Ireland. See entry and notes for 30 Dec. 1864. Also, cf. JE, 2.Google Scholar

⁶²⁵ Edward Sullivan (1822–85), Lib. MP for Mallow, 1865–70, Irish atty.-genl., 1868–70.

⁶²⁶ Henry Thring (1818–1907), Parliamentary couns. to Treasury.

⁶²⁷ Legal adv. to ld. lt. Ireland.

⁶²⁸ Roundell Palmer objected to disendowment, but was prepared to support disestablishment.

⁶²⁹ John Laird Mair, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811–79), viceroy of India, 1863–9.

⁶³⁰ A story tastefully excluded from JE.

⁶³¹ This entry omitted from JE.

⁶³² This entry omitted from JE.

⁶³³ On 13 April 1869 the American Senate rejected the Johnson-Clarendon convention as a basis for resolving differences between the two countries.

⁶³⁴ Cf. JE, where this entry is considerably expanded with a reflection from 1874.

⁶³⁵ This entry omitted from JE.

⁶³⁶ Russell criticised the government for delaying on Irish Land reform and pointed to the increase of crime in Ireland.

⁶³⁷ On 27 April 1869 the Mayor of Cork, Daniel O'Sullivan, praised the attempt to assassinate the Duke of Edinburgh at Melbourne.

⁶³⁸ Stemming from O'Sullivan's incendiary remarks in his speech of 27 April lauding assassination as a patriotic tool. O'Sullivan resigned on 11 May 1869.

⁶³⁹ See Gladstone Diaries, VII, 68.Google Scholar

⁶⁴⁰ JE records no entries between 13 May and 19 June 1869.

⁶⁴¹ See entry for 30 Dec. 1868.

⁶⁴² See Parry, , Democracy and Religion, 283.Google Scholar

⁶⁴³ Archibald Tait (1811–82), archbp. of Canterbury, 1869–82.

⁶⁴⁴ William Connor Magee (1821–91), dean of Cork, 1864–8, dean of Chapel Royal, Dublin, 1868–8; bp. of Peterborough, 1868–91.

⁶⁴⁵ Connop Thirwill (1797–1875), bp. of St David's, 1840–75.

⁶⁴⁶ William Alexander (1824–1911), bp. of Derry, 1867–93.

⁶⁴⁷ This passage combined with entry of 19 June in JE.

⁶⁴⁸ William Neilson Hancock, superintendent of jud. and criminal statistics office, Dublin.

⁶⁴⁹ Harry George Powlett, 7th Duke of Cleveland (1803–91) Lib. MP for Durham, 1841–59, for Hastings, 1859–64, when he succ. as Duke of Cleveland.

⁶⁵⁰ See expansion of this passage in the Kimberley Memoir, herein, 492–3.

⁶⁵¹ Sir Colman O'Loghlen (1819–77), Home Rule MP for Co. Clare, 1863–77.

⁶⁵² George Augustus Selwyn (1809–78), bp. of Lichfield, 1868–78.

⁶⁵³ The second and final sentences of this passage omitted from JE.

⁶⁵⁴ In JE, this passage combined in entry for 1, 2, 5 July.

⁶⁵⁵ William Tighe Hamillton, Irish barrister. On the Stanhope amendment, see Parry, , Democracy and Religion, 284–5Google Scholar. Cf. Walpole, S., The Life of Lord John Russell (2 vols., London, 1889), II, 436.Google Scholar

⁶⁵⁶ See 3 Hansard 198 (16 07 1869), 122–3.Google Scholar

⁶⁵⁷ JE, 16 July, omits forms of the compromise.

⁶⁵⁸ Not mentioned in JE.

⁶⁵⁹ Entries of 22 July, 9 Aug. in JE no longer extant in the Kimberley Journal.

⁶⁶⁰ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, ist Baron Lytton (1803–73), novelist and Cons. MP for Hertfordshire, 1852–66; col. sec., 1858–9. Lytton and Bulmer not mentioned in JE.

⁶⁶¹ This sentence omitted from JE.

⁶⁶² This entry omitted from JE.

⁶⁶³ Not mentioned in JE.

⁶⁶⁴ This entry much expanded in JE.

⁶⁶⁵ Gladstone not mentioned in this passage in JE.

⁶⁶⁶ This passage expanded and combined with discussion of Land bill in JE, 14 12 1869.Google Scholar

⁶⁶⁷ Entry for 10 Nov. 1869.

⁶⁶⁸ This entry expanded in JE.

⁶⁶⁹ JE records no entries between 19 Dec. 1869 and 5 Feb. 1870.

⁶⁷⁰ Cf. JE, for 5 Feb., where Kiraberley admits that, from the vantage point of 1875, he was ‘unduly alarmed’.

⁶⁷¹ See Kimberley's reflection from 1875 in JE 5 02 1870.Google Scholar

⁶⁷² This passage omitted from the JE. Bright's clauses provided provision for land purchase.

⁶⁷³ Charles Robert Barry (1824–97), Lib. MP for Dungarvan, 1865–8; Irish sol.-genl., 1868–70.

⁶⁷⁴ This sentence omitted from JE.

⁶⁷⁵ This passage expanded in JE.

⁶⁷⁶ ‘Fool's paradise’ becomes ‘happy delusion’ in JE. See Parry, , Democracy and Religion, 292.Google Scholar

⁶⁷⁷ Cf. the broad expansion in the JE, where Kimberley suspects that Gladstone's vehemence is ‘greatly due to the fear of losing Bright’ if a vigorous course were taken. ‘I made the best fight I could.’ Kimberley wrote, ‘but it is impossible to get the best of Gladstone in argument. His ingenuity in shifting his ground, and in probing every weak point in his adversary's armour render him almost invincible. Unfortunately he is often led astray by his own subtilty, and thus gives exaggerated weight in council to arguments useful perhaps in debate but more plausible than sound. I have heard that Palmerston one day when he had been sorely tried by Gladstone's dialectics said to a friend ‘you remember that anecdote about Pitt when he was asked what was the first quality of a statesman. He answered “patience”: and the second? patience. & the third? patience. But Pitt did not know Gladstone!’

⁶⁷⁸ Presumably regarding Gladstone's giving way over possible use of a coercian act. Cf.JE.

⁶⁷⁹ Richard Dowse, Irish sol.-genl, 14 Feb. 1870 to 6 Feb. 1872.

⁶⁸⁰ Dated 29 March in JE.

⁶⁸¹ See Parry, , Democracy and Religion, 299.Google Scholar

⁶⁸² John Brown (1826–83), was Queen Victoria's favourite servant and confidant, their close relationship becoming the subject of rumour.

⁶⁸³ JE excludes the first sentence of this entry and adds, ‘the loss of Sullivan is irreparable’.

⁶⁸⁴ Vyner was de Grey's brother-in-law. Gladstone believed that the press generally had been ‘most precipitous and & unjustifiable abt. the Greek Govt’. See Gladstone Diaries, VII, 283Google Scholar n. 8; also correspondence of 14 April to 16 May 1870 in CIP, Clar. dep. c. 499, ff. 90–132.

⁶⁸⁵ The beginning of a series of revelations which led to Lord Wodehouse's bankruptcy, filed 1 Jan. 1872. See KP1 28/4.

⁶⁸⁶ Presumably on the withdrawal of troops from the Australasian colonies. Cf JE, May (sic) 13.

⁶⁸⁷ Legislation to allow marriage with a deceased wife's sister not passed until 1907.

⁶⁸⁸ Wood, William Page, A Vindication of the Law Prohibiting Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister (1861).Google Scholar

⁶⁸⁹ In JE in 1875 Kimberley added: ‘I was quite wrong here. The bill seems farther than ever from passing.’

⁶⁹⁰ Leopold II (1835–1909), r. 1865–1909.

⁶⁹¹ Corresp. untreated.

⁶⁹² Note expansion in JE.

⁶⁹³ No entries are recorded in JE between 3 June and 24 June.

⁶⁹⁴ Thomas O'Hagan, Baron O'Hagan (1812–85), Irish ld. chanc., 1868–74; Lib. MP for Tralee, 1865–8; cr. UK peerage, 1870.

⁶⁹⁵ This passage dated ‘June 27’ in JE, where it begins: ‘I was shocked this morning at the news of Clarendon's death.’

⁶⁹⁶ Francis Goldsmid (1808–79), Lib. MP for Reading, 1860–78.

⁶⁹⁷ Lowe and de Grey not cited as sources in JE.

⁶⁹⁸ See Kimberley's estimate of Halifax in JE.

⁶⁹⁹ Final sentence excluded from JE, while adding that ‘its original enactment was a mistake’. Kimberley had been outspoken in favour of the measure in 1850–1, but by the mid-sixties had come to regret his support. See Liberal by Principle, 68–70Google Scholar; 3 Hansard 186 (28 03 1867), 711–12.Google Scholar

⁷⁰⁰ In late 1869 Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern (1835–1905) was secretly offered the throne of Spain. Bismarck pressed his claim while France fiercely opposed it.

⁷⁰¹ On 12 July, France demanded that Prussia endorse Prince Leopold's withdrawal of his claim to the Spanish throne. On 19 July France declared war on Prussia.

⁷⁰² ‘phese pages almost certainly having to do with the ‘important decisions taken for the “situation”’ on 30 July. Gladstone Diaries, VII, 335Google Scholar. In JE long entries for 16 and 22 July 1870 are on Canada and the attempted suicide of Sir Robert Hervey.

⁷⁰³ Gladstone himself characterised it as a ‘peaceful speech to a warlike company’. Gladstone Diaries, VII, 335.Google Scholar

⁷⁰⁴ On 2 Sept. 1870 Napoleon III surrendered to the Prussians at Sedan. Bismarck demanded Alsace and Lorraine, and laid siege to Paris.

⁷⁰⁵ HMS Captain, an iron-clad turret ship, capsized on 7 Sept., causing more than 450 fatalities.

⁷⁰⁶ Final passage omitted from JE.

⁷⁰⁷ Achille Bazaine (1811–88), head of French army in Mexico, 1863; appt. marshal, 1864; command, main French armies during Franco-Prussian War.

⁷⁰⁸ Ernest Philip Ivanovich, Baron Brunnow (1797–1875), Russian amb. to London, 1858–74.

⁷⁰⁹ Fuller entry in JE.

⁷¹⁰ Renouncing the covenants of 1856 restricting Russian rights in the Black Sea.

⁷¹¹ Accepting a conference in London to determine questions of unilateral treaty changes. This entry omitted from JE.

⁷¹² See Gladstone Diaries, VII, 409–10.Google Scholar

⁷¹³ Excepting the brief mention of Cardwell's army measures, this Cabinet report was omitted from the JE.

⁷¹⁴ Accusing Luxembourg of breaking neutrality in contravention of the 1867 Luxembourg Treaty.

⁷¹⁵ Expressing great concern about Bismarck's circular. See Gladstone Diaries, VII, 416–17Google Scholar. This discussion of the Luxembourg Treaty omitted from JE.

⁷¹⁶ 15 Feb. 1871 in JE and in Gladstone Diaries, VII, 449.Google Scholar

⁷¹⁷ The Army Regulation bill reorganised the armed forces, creating a new reserve force and abolishing the purchase of commissions.

⁷¹⁸ Fortescue and Bruce not mentioned in JE.

⁷¹⁹ Lionel Rothschild (1808–79), chief manager of Rothschild banking house in England; Lib. MP for London, 1858–79.

⁷²⁰ Kirkman Daniel Hodgson (1814–79), gov. Bank of England; Lib. MP for Bristol, 1870–8.

⁷²¹ In JE Kimberley adds how curious it was that these predictions were ‘falsified by the event’.

⁷²² With local suspension of Habeas Corpus if the case warranted. See Parry, , Democracy and Religion, 318–19Google Scholar; Kimberley, to de Grey, , 20 02 1871Google Scholar, in Literal by Principle, 124–5.Google Scholar

⁷²³ George Joachim Goschen (1831–1907), Lib. then Lib. U. MP for City of London, 1863–80, for Ripon, 1880–5; for Edinburgh E., 1885–6; for St. George's Hanover Square, 1887–1900, when he was cr. Viscount Goschen; pres, poor law bd., 1868–71; 1st ld. adm., 1871–4; chanc. exch., 1887–92.

⁷²⁴ In a similar vein, see Lady Kimberley's advice to Alice not to read ‘any French novels … Their tone is false and their sentiment bad.’ PKF DE 1749 38/3.

⁷²⁵ No entries in JE between 9 March and 21 March.

⁷²⁶ Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's third daughter, married the Marquess of Lome, eldest son of the Duke of Argyll.

⁷²⁷ The previous eleven words seem to have been added as a summary of the previous excisions, as it flows smoothly into the final three words. Cf. JE, 27 04 1871.Google Scholar

⁷²⁸ The Home Secretary, H. A. Bruce, proposed in his licensing bill to prevent any increase in the number of public houses. The long-term security of publican's licenses was also left in doubt. The bill alienated the ‘drink interest’ in the country.

⁷²⁹ Cf. Gladstone attending with ‘much interest and delight’. Gladstone Diaries, VII, 488.Google Scholar

⁷³⁰ Stansfeld excluded as an ‘able financier’ from the JE because he failed to live up to expectations. See entries for 3 Dec. 1873, 21 Feb. 1874.

⁷³¹ For details, see Kimberley to Raikes Currie, 10 May 1871, in Liberal by Principle, 125–6.Google Scholar

⁷³² This entry omitted from JE.

⁷³³ Abolished those religious subscriptions which effectively restricted the governing of Oxford and Cambridge Universities to Anglicans.

⁷³⁴ This entry omitted form JE.

⁷³⁵ Cf. JE, where Kimberley gives ‘some account of the origin and progress of the negotiation which ended in the Treaty’.

⁷³⁶ John Rose (1820–88), first min. of finance for dominion of Canada, 1867–8; resigned office and settled in England, 1868.

⁷³⁷ There are no entries in JE between 13 June and 24 June.

⁷³⁸ George Odger (1813–77), Cornish shoemaker and secretary of the London Trades Council, 1862–77.

⁷³⁹ In the JE, the two previous sentences become ‘I should much doubt it.’

⁷⁴⁰ Prince Frederick of Prussia and Princess Victoria, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria.

⁷⁴¹ Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond (1818–1903), Cons, leader in Lords, 1870–76; mediator in franchise bill crisis, 1884; his motion called for a Royal Commission to review proposed army reforms, 3 Hansard 207 (17 July 1871), 1792–1870.

⁷⁴² There are no entries in JE between 17 July and 31 July.

⁷⁴³ Motion expressing the view of the Lords, as proposed by the Duke of Richmond, that the government's handling of the Army Regulation bill was damaging to the independent action of the legislature. 3 Hansard 208 (31 07 1871), 459–539Google Scholar. Lord Russell voted against the government.

⁷⁴⁴ In the JE, Kimberley reflects that no measure had cost so much effort, or been so worthy, ‘not even the disestablishment of the Irish Church’.

⁷⁴⁵ The Ballot bill replaced open voting in parliamentary and municipal elections with voting by secret ballot.

⁷⁴⁶ Fuller entry in JE.

⁷⁴⁷ On Kimberley's previous relations with Mansel, see p. 44 above.

⁷⁴⁸ For a fuller account, see Kimberley to Monk Bretton, 4 Sept. 1871, MBP.

⁷⁴⁹ To determine the parameters of commercial relations between Britain and France upon the expiry of the 1860 Cobden–Chevalier Treaty.

⁷⁵⁰ There are no entries in JE between 15 Aug. 1871 and 18 Jan. 1872.

⁷⁵¹ Royal Agent to Fiji.

⁷⁵² Reflecting five years later in the JE, Kimberley adds ‘a few words as to his character’. He was a man of ‘sound sense and independent character’ but in no way ‘a man of first rate powers’ as the press was suggesting.

⁷⁵³ Surrounding the temporary appointment of Sir Robert Collier, then atty.-genl. to a superior court position merely for the purpose of qualifying him for a salaried position on the judicial committee of the Privy Council.

⁷⁵⁴ See expansion in JE, where Kimberley acknowledged Collier's fitness.

⁷⁵⁵ See Gladstone-Granville Corresp. 1, II, 307–8.Google Scholar

⁷⁵⁶ This annotation not included in JE.

⁷⁵⁷ Government proposed that the Metropolitan Board of Works appropriate land reclaimed from the Thames. See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 100.Google Scholar

⁷⁵⁸ Granville's name omitted in JE.

⁷⁵⁹ On 29 Feb. 1872, O'Connor, a Fenian, pointed an unloaded pistol at the Queen in her carriage, demanding the release of Fenian prisoners.

⁷⁶⁰ The power to levy intercolonial tariffs.

⁷⁶¹ On Kimberley's negotiations with Gladstone, see Liberal by Principle, 37Google Scholar. McIntyre, W. D., The Imperial Frontier in the Tropics, 1867–75 (London, 1967), 211, 246–59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

⁷⁶² A modified version of Bruce's 1871 bill which only regulated the granting of new licenses and restricted the opening hours of public houses.

⁷⁶³ Cf. the extended account in JE, where in 1877 Kimberley reflects on the ‘imprudence of Bruce's management of the question’, but suggests that it had ‘worked well’. Kimberley presented the Licensing bill to the Lords on 16 April 1872. 3 Hansard 210 (16 04 1872), 1311–27.Google Scholar

⁷⁶⁴ Roundell Palmer (1812–95), entered Parliament as a Cons, gradually moving into the Lib. camp; MP for Richmond, 1861–72, when er. 1st Baron Selborne; ld. chanc., 1872–4, 1880–5.

⁷⁶⁵ Calling for postponement of the Geneva tribunal until the U.S. withdrew its call for ‘indirect claims’ for compensation. 3 Hansard 211 (4 06 1872), 1095.Google Scholar

⁷⁶⁶ Over the terms of the Geneva tribunal established to settle U.S. claims for compensation from Britain for supplying the warship Alabama to the Confederacy during the American Civil War. See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 145–68.Google Scholar

⁷⁶⁷ Mary Livingston King, of Sandhills, Georgia. In writing prior to the marriage, her father thanked Kimberley for the ‘ready’ confidence with which you welcome an alliance between our families, and promised £400–500 per annum and an inheritance of not less than £10,000. ‘You are aware,’ King added, ‘that our disastrous Civil War left us only the wreck of fortunes once possessed.’ KP6 MS. eng. C. 4470, f. 57. Cf. Henry Wodehouse's letter to his mother saying ‘I am very much in love with a young lady. She has not much money and no particular connection in the way of family.’ 24 April 1872, KP/15/K2/20.

⁷⁶⁸ Malmesbury omitted from this list in JE.

⁷⁶⁹ Cf in JE Kimberley's long digression on his disdain for ‘orders’.

⁷⁷⁰ Amendment introduced by the Duke of Richmond on 17 June 1872 to allow the voter, if he wished, to mark his ballot paper before the officials in the polling station. On 28 June the Commons rejected the optional ballot amendment. Gladstone learned on 3 July that Richmond intended to persevere with his amendment in the Lords.

⁷⁷¹ Richmond's optional ballot amendment was rejected by the Lords by 157 to 138 votes. See Kinzer, B., The Ballot Question in Nineteenth-Century English Politics (New York, 1982), 239–43.Google Scholar

⁷⁷² For Derby's disquiet at having to act with Richmond, Cairns and Salisbury, see DD2, 111.Google Scholar

⁷⁷³ Hussey Packe, of Prestwold Hall, Loughborough. See Packe's diary, 1872, PkP DE1749. On Kimberley's approbation, see Kimberley, Lady to Wodehouse, Alice, 5 09 1872Google Scholar, PkP DE1749 38/3.

⁷⁷⁴ Robert George Herbert (1831–1905), perm, u.-sec. col., 1871–92. Childers had reentered the cabinet as Chanc, of the Duchy of Lancaster in Aug. 1872.

⁷⁷⁵ Charles Malcolm Kennedy, head of commercial dept., for. office, 1872–94.

⁷⁷⁶ See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 220–1.Google Scholar

⁷⁷⁷ See correspondence between Gladstone and Kimberley in Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 223.Google Scholar

⁷⁷⁸ One of the three straits traversed by the U.S.-Canadian boundary on the western coast around Vancouver Island. Notice of T.O. muddle' omitted from JE, and from Gladstone's minutes. Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 236–7.Google Scholar

⁷⁷⁹ After much discussion the government proposed the establishment of a nondenominational Irish University, to which protestant colleges would be affiliated as well as those catholic institutions which wished to join.

⁷⁸⁰ 28 Nov. See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 243.Google Scholar

⁷⁸¹ In the event, legislation was not introduced, but a select committee on local taxation was established. See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 255.Google Scholar

⁷⁸² A modified version of this entry included with previous entry of 3 Dec. in JE.

⁷⁸³ Much reminiscence in JE on his ‘hateful’ regime. ‘When the secret history of these times is known,’ Kimberley wrote, ‘it will be found I think that Morny pulled strings in all the most critical moments of Louis Napoleon's strange career.’

⁷⁸⁴ Agreement of January 1873 that Afghanistan would be a neutral zone between British and Russian territories, with the Oxus River as the nothern territory.

⁷⁸⁵ ‘Unanimous’ not used in JE. See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 293–4.Google Scholar

⁷⁸⁶ Over University bill.

⁷⁸⁷ Prognostications omitted from JE.

⁷⁸⁸ Commons division of 284 to 287 on Irish University bill. See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 298–9.Google Scholar

⁷⁸⁹ Along with Lowe and Goschen. See Kimberley to Ripon, 13 March 1873, in Liberal by Principle, 133–4.Google Scholar

⁷⁹⁰ In JE, 18 03 1873Google Scholar, the reasoning of 13 March is combined with the activities of 18 March and 20 March.

⁷⁹¹ See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 305Google Scholar. Disraeli declined to form a government.

⁷⁹² See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 307.Google Scholar

⁷⁹³ Clause 25 of the 1870 Education Act allowed the boards of denominational schools to pay the fees for parents unable to afford them. Non-conformists objected strongly to the possibility of sectarian boards thus subsidising Anglican schools. Not mentioned in JE.

⁷⁹⁴ The remainder of this entry omitted from JE.

⁷⁹⁵ Proposal to abolish religious tests in Trinity College and the University of Dublin. Fawcett introduced a third version of the bill on 3 April. The bill received the Royal Assent on 26 May 1873.

⁷⁹⁶ James Allen Ransome (1806–75), agricultural implement maker.

⁷⁹⁷ Regarding renegotiation of contracts for carrying Cape Mails. Cf. JE, 39.Google Scholar

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⁷⁹⁹ W.H. Smith (1825–91), Cons. MP for Westminister, 1868–85, for me Strand, 1885–91; fin. sec. to treasury, 1874–7; 1st ld. adm., 1877–80; war sec., 1885–6; 1st ld. treas., 1887–91. Smith moved that the govt. inform the nation of its views on direct taxation before reducing indirect taxation

⁸⁰⁰ To discuss the question of further instructions to Sir Bartle Frere, who in the previous year had been appointed special commissioner to the Sultan of Zanzibar to secure a treaty abolishing the slave trade by sea. Not mentioned in JE.

⁸⁰¹ R.W. Crawford (1813–89), Lib. MP for the City of London, 1857–74, had moved the rejection of plan by Endowed Schools Commissioners for future management of Emanuel Hospital.

⁸⁰² For the disestablishment of the Churches of England and Scotland.

⁸⁰³ Liberal objection to ultramontane interference in temporal affairs was aroused when Father O'Keeffe was suspended by Catholic hierarchy as manager of the Callan National Schools in Ireland.

⁸⁰⁴ Both May by-elections reversals for the Liberals.

⁸⁰⁵ See n. 819, below. For a full treatment of British policy, see McIntyre, W.D., ‘British Policy in West Africa: The Ashanti Expedition of 1873–74’, Historical Journal 5 (1962), 19–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

⁸⁰⁶ See cabinets of 14 and 17 May in Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 328, 330.Google Scholar

⁸⁰⁷ French port bordering the British Gold Coast. See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 332–3.Google Scholar

⁸⁰⁸ Enabling Australasian colonies to establish preferential tariffs. See Kimberley's extended analysis of free trade and imperial integrity in JE. Also, Kimberley to Musgrave, 19 July 1875, in Liberal by Principle, 140.Google Scholar

⁸⁰⁹ Additional material added to this entry in JE.

⁸¹⁰ See Gladstone Diaries, VIII, 336–7.Google Scholar