Melbourne
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Melbourne

A Biography of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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eBook - ePub

Melbourne

A Biography of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

About this book

'I agree with Lord David [Cecil] that Melbourne as a friend or relative must have been one of the most delightful, wise and entertaining of men, but in public life I believe him also to have been ambitious, cynical and almost wholly without political principle. He was, in short, much less of a carefree amateur, much more of a politician.' Philip Ziegler, from his Preface

First published in 1976, Philip Ziegler's Melbourne drew on hitherto unused material and made an unprecedently searching assessment of the eminent Whig statesman of the 1830s/40s. It is extraordinary enough that Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister should have been dragged through the courts by an aggrieved husband not once but twice. Yet Melbourne's 'problematic' personal life is only one reason why Ziegler, even-handed and scrupulous, was compelled to test the validity of Victoria's famous final judgement that Melbourne was 'not a good or firm minister'.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2013
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9780571302888
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. FOREWORD
  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  9. CHAPTER 1: The Child
  10. CHAPTER 2: The Student
  11. CHAPTER 3: A Way to Make
  12. CHAPTER 4: ‘An exaggerated woman’
  13. CHAPTER 5: The Doldrums
  14. CHAPTER 6: Ireland
  15. CHAPTER 7: Lady Branden
  16. CHAPTER 8: The End of the Huskissonians
  17. CHAPTER 9: Captain Swing
  18. CHAPTER 10: The Years of the Reform Bill
  19. CHAPTER 11: The Irish and the Unions
  20. CHAPTER 12: Prime Minister
  21. CHAPTER 13: Peel’s Hundred Days
  22. CHAPTER 14: Master in His Own House
  23. CHAPTER 15: Church and State
  24. CHAPTER l6: ‘The Threat of Passion’
  25. CHAPTER 17: ‘Fretted by Opposition’
  26. CHAPTER 18: Protector Somerset
  27. CHAPTER 19: The Queen’s First Minister
  28. CHAPTER 20: The ‘Stationary System’
  29. CHAPTER 21: Bedchamber Treason and Plot
  30. CHAPTER 22: Playing Out Time
  31. CHAPTER 23: Eastern Crisis
  32. CHAPTER 24: Decline and Fall
  33. CHAPTER 25: The Race of Glory Run
  34. APPENDIX I:: MELBOURNE’S FIRST CABINET
  35. APPENDIX II:: MELBOURNE’S SECOND CABINET
  36. NOTE ON MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
  37. INDEX
  38. Plates
  39. Copyright

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