LITMIR.BIZ

      VOLUME 1

       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

       Book I. 1809-1831

       Chapter I. Childhood

       Chapter II. Eton

       Chapter III. Oxford

       Book II. 1882-1846

       Chapter I. Enters Parliament

       Chapter II. The New Conservatism and Office

       Chapter III. Progress in Public Life

       Chapter IV. The Church

       Chapter V. His First Book

       Chapter VI. Characteristics

       Chapter VII. Close of Apprenticeship

       Chapter VIII. Peel's Government

       Chapter IX. Maynooth

       Chapter X. Triumph of Policy and Fall of the Minister

       Chapter XI. The Tractarian Catastrophe

       Book III. 1847-1852

       Chapter I. Member for Oxford

       Chapter II. The Hawarden Estate

       Chapter III. Party Evolution—New Colonial Policy

       Chapter IV. Death of Sir Robert Peel

       Chapter V. Gorham Case—Secession of Friends

       Chapter VI. Naples

       Chapter VII. Religious Tornado—Peelite Difficulties

       Chapter VIII. End of Protection

       Book IV. 1853-1859

       Chapter I. The Coalition

       Chapter II. The Triumph of 1853

       Chapter III. The Crimean War

       Chapter IV. Oxford Reform—Open Civil Service

       Chapter V. War Finance—Tax or Loan

       Chapter VI. Crisis of 1855 and Break-up of the Peelites

       Chapter VII. Political Isolation

       Chapter VIII. General Election—New Marriage Law

       Chapter IX. The Second Derby Government

       Chapter X. The Ionian Islands

       Chapter XI. Junction with the Liberals

       Appendix Choice of Profession

       Chronology

      NOTE

      The material on which this biography is founded consists mainly, of course, of the papers collected at Hawarden. Besides that vast accumulation, I have been favoured with several thousands of other pieces from the legion of Mr. Gladstone's correspondents. Between two and three hundred thousand written papers of one sort or another must have passed under my view. To some important journals and papers from other sources I have enjoyed free access, and my warm thanks are due to those who have generously lent me this valuable aid. I am especially indebted to the King for the liberality with which his Majesty has been graciously pleased to sanction the use of certain documents, in cases where the permission of the Sovereign was required.

      When I submitted an application for the same purpose to Queen Victoria, in readily promising her favourable consideration, the Queen added a message strongly impressing on me that the

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