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INDEX
Abbotsford (house) ref 1
Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Lord ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of
relations with WEG ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
as Secretary of State for War and the in Colonies ref 1
character and background ref 1
as Foreign Secretary ref 1n, ref 2
death ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
at Peel’s funeral ref 1
and relations with Vatican ref 1
WEG visits at Haddo ref 1
WEG addresses public letters to ref 1, ref 2
intervenes over Neapolitan oppression ref 1
forms 1851 government ref 1, ref 2
and WEG’s 1853 budget ref 1, ref 2
and Crimean War ref 1 & n, ref 2, ref 3
and civil service reform proposals ref 1
coalition government falls ref 1
and Russell’s ambitions for leadership ref 1
and WEG’s commission in Ionian Islands ref 1
son Arthur’s life of ref 1n, ref 2
on WEG’s powers ref 1, ref 2
in Peel’s government ref 1
relations with Queen ref 1
classical learning ref 1
Aberdeen, John Campbell Gordon, 7th Earl and 1st Marquess of ref 1
Aberdeen (Scotland) ref 1, ref 2
Acland, Arthur ref 1, ref 2
Acland, (Sir) Arthur Herbert Dyke ref 1, ref 2
Acland, Sir Thomas Dyke
at Oxford ref 1
and WEG’s first book ref 1
and Tractarian lay brotherhood ref 1
warns WEG of remoteness ref 1
and WEG’s first premiership ref 1
visits Hawarden ref 1
Act of Union (1800) ref 1, ref 2
Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Lord
friendship with WEG ref 1
peerage ref 1
in Cannes with WEG ref 1, ref 2
in Bavaria and Austria with WEG ref 1
in Biarritz with WEG ref 1
Adams, Charles ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Adams, Henry: Democracy ref 1
Addington, Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth ref 1
Adenauer, Konrad ref 1
Adullamites ref 1, ref 2
Affirmation Bill (1883) ref 1
Affirmation Bill (1888) ref 1
Afghanistan: wars in ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Alabama (ship): activities and claim settlement forms ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Albert, Prince Consort
friendliness to WEG ref 1n, ref 2, ref 3
favours Protestantism ref 1
supports WEG for Chancellorship of Exchequer ref 1
and WEG’s 1853 budget ref 1, ref 2
WEG visits at Windsor ref 1
as Tennyson’s Arthur ref 1
death ref 1
in WEG’s Manchester address ref 1
Alexandra, Princess of Wales (later Queen) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Alexandria: bombarded (1882) ref 1, ref 2
Algeria ref 1, ref 2
All Souls College, Oxford
WEG visits (1890) ref 1, ref 2
WEG’s Fellowship ref 1
Alnwick, Northumberland ref 1
Alsace-Lorraine ref 1, ref 2
Althorp: WEG visits ref 1, ref 2
Althorp, John Charles, Viscount (later 3rd Earl Spencer) ref 1, ref 2
American Civil War ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Anstice, Joseph ref 1
Apostolic Church ref 1
Arabi Pasha (Ahmed Arabi) ref 1
Argyll, Elizabeth Georgiana, Duchess of: death ref 1
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of
and WEG’s 1853 budget ref 1
in Palmerston’s 1855 government ref 1
in Palmerston’s 1859 government ref 1
relations with WEG ref 1
WEG complains of Palmerston to ref 1, ref 2
and repeal of paper duties ref 1
and defence expenditure ref 1
WEG visits ref 1
visits Rome ref 1
in WEG’s Cabinet ref 1
and Irish Land Bill ref 1
WEG entertains ref 1
WEG’s rupture with ref 1
in WEG’s 1880 government ref 1
differences with WEG ref 1
resignation ref 1n
article in North American Review opposing Home Rule ref 1
absence from WEG’s funeral ref 1
Argyll, 9th Duke of see Lorne, Marquess of
Armenian massacres (1894–5) ref 1, ref 2
Armitstead, George (later Lord) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Armstrong, Sir William George (Lord Armstrong of Cragside) ref 1
Army Regulation Bill (1871) ref 1
Arnold, Matthew ref 1, ref 2
Arnold, Thomas ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught ref 1
Ashbourne (land purchase) Act (1885) ref 1
Ashley, Evelyn ref 1
Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
and Churchill ref 1
and Great War ref 1
as Liberal PM ref 1, ref 2
visits Ireland ref 1
loses Fife seat ref 1
visits Hatfield House ref 1 & n
non-participation in committee stages ref 1
and Venetia Stanley ref 1
in WEG’s 1892 government ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
and Irish Home Rule ref 1
assumes exclusion from Commons on taking over War Office ref 1n
mental qualities ref 1
drinking ref 1
and conflict with Lords ref 1
honours Brassey ref 1
in Parnell libel case ref 1
and WEG’s relations with Parnell ref 1
classical learning ref 1
and Second Home Rule Bill ref 1
WEG’s estimate of ref 1
on WEG’s resignation ref 1
Asquith, Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (neé Tennant) ref 1
Association of Lancashire and Cheshire Mechanics Institutes ref 1
Aston Hall estate: WEG buys ref 1
Athens: WEG visits ref 1
Attlee, Clement, 1st Earl ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Aumale, Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d’Orléans, Duc d’ ref 1
Austen, Jane ref 1
Pride and Prejudice ref 1
Australia: convict transportation to ref 1
Austria
war with France and Piedmont ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
WEG visits ref 1
Avondale, Co. Wicklow ref 1
Avory, Sir Horace Edmund ref 1
Ayrton, Acton Smee ref 1
Bad Ems (spa), Germany ref 1
Baden-Baden ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Bagehot, Walter
on WEG’s background ref 1
on Peel ref 1
on WEG’s leading and driving ref 1
criticizes WEG’s fiscal proposals ref 1
WEG criticizes ref 1
Baines, Matthew Talbot ref 1
Baker, Valentine (Baker Pasha) ref 1
Baldwin, Stanley (later 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Balfour, Arthur James (later 1st Earl of Balfour)
on Peel ref 1
loses Manchester seat (1906) ref 1
education reform ref 1
WEG visits ref 1, ref 2
WEG stays at Carlton Gardens home ref 1
on WEG’s speechmaking ref 1
flirts with WEG’s daughter Mary ref 1
turns against WEG ref 1
criticizes Kilmainham agreement ref 1
attacks WEG over Egypt policy ref 1
WEG approaches at Eaton Hall ref 1, ref 2
as Chief Secretary for Ireland ref 1
at Asquith wedding ref 1
in debate on 1893 Address ref 1
improved relations with WEG ref 1
obituary tribute to WEG ref 1
Ballot Bill (1872) ref 1, ref 2
Balmoral
WEG in attendance at ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8
Queen’s 1871 autumn visit to ref 1
Baltic: WEG’s 1895 cruise in ref 1
Balzari, Dr ref 1
Barber, L.J. ref 1
Baring, Evelyn see Cromer, 1st Earl of
Barrington, George, 7th Viscount ref 1
Bassetlaw by-election (1889) ref 1
Bath Club ref 1
Bathurst, William, 5th Earl ref 1
Bavaria ref 1, ref 2
Beaconsfield, Earl of see Disraeli, Benjamin
Beaconsfield, Viscountess of see Disraeli, Mary Anne
Beaufort, Charlotte Sophia, Dowager Duchess of ref 1
Beaufort, Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, 8th Duke of ref 1
Beaumont, Miles Thomas Stapleton, 8th Lord ref 1
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Lord ref 1
Beddgelert (North Wales) ref 1
Bedford, William Russell, 9th Duke of ref 1 & n, ref 2
Bee Hive (journal) ref 1
Belgium: and Franco-Prussian War ref 1
Benedetti, Vincent, Count ref 1n, ref 2
Benson, Edward White, Archbishop of Canterbury ref 1, ref 2n, ref 3, ref 4
Bentinck, Lord George ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Berlin, Congress of (1878) ref 1, ref 1
Berthomier (French teacher) ref 1
Besant, Annie: Autobiography ref 1
Bessborough, Frederick George Brabazon Ponsonby, 6th Earl: commission on Irish land tenure ref 1
Bethell, Richard see Westbury, 1st Lord
Betjeman, Sir John
on Captain Webb ref 1
Summoned by Bells ref 1
Bevan, Aneurin ref 1n
Bevin, Ernest ref 1
Biarritz ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Birkett, Norman, 1st Lord ref 1
Birmingham
St Chad’s (Roman Catholic) cathedral ref 1
WEG visits and speaks in (1877) ref 1
Northcote and Churchill visit ref 1
Birrell, Augustine ref 1n
Birrell, Francis ref 1, ref 2
Bishops’ Resignation Bill (1859) ref 1
Bismarck, Otto, Prince von
and Franco-Prussian war, ref 1n, ref 2, ref 3
on Disraeli ref 1
reputation ref 1
non-interference in Egypt ref 1
Black Craig Castle, Perthshire ref 1
Blackheath ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Blake, Robert, Lord
on Russell’s 1851 government ref 1
on Disraeli’s maintaining power ref 1
on WEG’s intervention in Public Worship Bill ref 1
on WEG-Disraeli hostility ref 1
on Disraeli’s 1880 defeat ref 1
Blantyre, Charles Stuart, 12th Lord ref 1
Blomfield, Charles James, Bi
shop of London ref 1, ref 2
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen ref 1
Board of Control (for India) ref 1
Board of Trade ref 1, ref 2
Boer War ref 1
Bolsover, Augusta Mary Cavendish-Bentinck, Baroness ref 1
Bonifazio: Virgin ref 1
Boord, Thomas William ref 1 & n
Bournemouth ref 1
Boveridge (house), Dorset ref 1
Bowden Park, Wiltshire ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Bowen, Charles, Lord ref 1
Boycott, Captain Charles Cunningham ref 1
Boydell, James ref 1
Bradlaugh, Charles
parliamentary oath ref 1, ref 2n, ref 3, ref 4
re-elected ref 1
Braico (Neapolitan prisoner) ref 1
Brand, Sir Henry Bouverie William (1st Viscount Hampden) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
Brassey, Lady ref 1
Brassey, Sir Thomas (later 1st Earl) ref 1, ref 2
Brennan, Thomas ref 1
Bright, Jacob ref 1
Bright, John
in Don Pacifico debate ref 1
opposes Russell’s Ecclesiastical Titles Bill ref 1, ref 2
eloquence ref 1
represents Manchester ref 1
loses seat (1857) ref 1
on Disraeli’s Second Reform Bill ref 1
supports new Liberal Party ref 1
and fall of Derby government ref 1
and Cobden’s trade treaty with France ref 1
on WEG’s rash speech on American Civil War ref 1
coins Adullamite epithet ref 1
and popular demands for reform ref 1
as President of Board of Trade ref 1, ref 2
WEG’s relations with ref 1, ref 2
WEG consults over honours ref 1
advocates non-interference in foreign affairs ref 1
and WEG’s education reform proposals ref 1
retires ref 1
and WEG’s possible exclusion on assuming Chancellorship ref 1
and 1874 election ref 1
sits with WEG on opposition benches ref 1
WEG’s rupture with ref 1
visits WEG after Midlothian success ref 1
in WEG’s 1880 government ref 1
decline ref 1
and Bradlaugh oath question ref 1
and WEG’s Egypt policy ref 1, ref 2
condemns bombardment of Alexandria ref 1
separates from WEG over Home Rule ref 1
WEG meets before opening of 1886 Parliament ref 1
absent from 1886 Address vote ref 1
declines to serve in 1886 government ref 1
votes against First Home Rule Bill ref 1
WEG rebukes for slur on honour ref 1
death ref 1
Brighton ref 1, ref 2
BritishMuseum, Reading Room ref 1
Broadlands (house), Hampshire ref 1
Broadstairs ref 1
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Lord ref 1, ref 2