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  • Nineteenth-century British premiers[electronic resource] :Pitt to Rosebery /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 941.0810922
    Title/Author: Nineteenth-century British premiers : Pitt to Rosebery // Dick Leonard.
    Author: Leonard, R. L.
    Published: Basingstoke, England ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2008.
    Description: viii, 354 p. : : ill.
    Subject: Prime ministers - Biography. - Great Britain
    Subject: Great Britain - Fiction.
    ISBN: 9780230227255
    ISBN: 0230227252
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Introduction -- William Pitt, the Younger - Reformer turned Reactionary? -- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth - better than his reputation? -- William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville - not quite b3 sAll the Talents b4 s -- William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland - Whig into Tory -- Spencer Perceval - struck down in his prime -- Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - keeping the show on the road -- George Canning - in the footsteps of Pitt -- Frederick John Robinson, Viscount Goderich, 1st Earl of Ripon - inadequate stopgap -- Arthur Wesley (Wellesley), 1st Duke of Wellington - military hero, political misfit? -- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey - In the footsteps of Fox -- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne - mentor to a young monarch -- Sir Robert Peel - arch pragmatist or Tory traitor? -- Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell - from Whig to Liberal -- Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby - b3 sThe brilliant chief, irregularly great b4 s -- George Gordon,4th Earl of Aberdeen - failure or scapegoat? -- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston - masterdiplomat or playground bully? -- Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield - climbing b3 sthe greasypole b4 s -- William Ewart Gladstone - from b3 sstern unbending Tory b4 s to b3 sthe people's William b4 s -- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury -the ultimate High Tory -- Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery - dying fall?
    [NT 15000229]: Following his earlier survey of 20th Century British Prime Ministers(A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair), Dick Leonard turns his attention to their 19th Century predecessors, including such major figures as the Younger Pitt, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Grey, Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone. In a series of 20 biographical essays, he recounts the principal events of their politicalcareers, the circumstances which brought them to the top of 'the greasy pole', assesses their performance as Prime Ministers, and asks what lasting influence they have had. He also recounts fascinating and often little-known facts from both their private and public lives, for example, which Prime Minister got his parents to bring up his illegitimate daughter and pass her off as his much younger sister? Which Prime Minister spent his evenings prowlingthe streets of London, trying to 'reform' prostitutes? Who was assassinated in the House of Commons? Who told a courtesan who tried to blackmail him 'Publish and be dammed'? And who proclaimed Queen Victoria as Empress of India?
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