DILKE PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 298). Correspondence with William Ewart Gladstone; 1870-1894. This correspondence is complementary to Vol. LXIV in the Gladstone Papers (Add. MS. 44149), for the description of which see the Catalogue of the Gladstone Paper... 1870-1894

Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898

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William Ewart Gladstone, prime minister and author, was born in Liverpool, on Dec. 29, 1809; the fifth child and youngest son of Sir John Gladstone and Anne Mackenzie Gladstone. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, in preparation for a future in the British political world. He married Catherine Glynne, whom he met in Rome, in 1839, and together they had eight children. Gladstone was first elected to Parliament in January 1833, and over the next sixty years was involved i...

Foreign Office (active 1714-1944)

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Cavendish, Spencer Compton, 1833-1908, Marquess of Hartington, 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman

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1857-1868 Member of Parliament for North Lancashire; 1863-1866 Under-Secretary, War Office; 1868-1870 Postmaster-General; 1870-1874 Chief Secretary for Ireland; 1880-1882 Secretary of State for India; 1882-1885 Secretary of State for War. Epithet: statesman Title: Marquess of Hartington, 8th Duke of Devonshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x00029c ...

Alexander III, active 1870-1910, of Russia

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Bright, John, of Add MS 37772

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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

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Queen Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on May 24, 1819 at Kensington Palace in London and she became heir to the throne when her father died. In 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18. During the early part of her reign, she was influenced by two men: her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and then her husband, Prince Albert, whom she married in 1840. Both men taught her much about how to be ...

Kennedy, Charles Malcolm, Sir, active 1866-1909, KCMG; of the Foreign Office

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Adams, Francis Ottiwell, Sir, active 1870-1894, KCMG, diplomatist

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Harcourt, William George Granville Venables Vernon, Sir, PC, MP

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Gower, Granville George Leveson-, 1815-1891, 2nd Earl Granville, statesman

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1837-1840 member of parliament for Morpeth; 1840-1841 under-secretary, the Foreign Office; 1841-1846 member of parliament for Lichfield; 1846 earldom, entered the House of Lords and made privy councillor; 1846-1848 master of the buckhounds; 1847-1851 paymaster-general; 1848 vice-president, the Board of Trade; 1851-1852 foreign secretary; 1852-1854, 1855-1858 and 1859-1866 lord president of the council; 1854-1855 chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster; 1856 ambassador-extraordinary to ...

Dilke, Emilia Francis, formerly Pattison née Strong 2nd wife of Sir C W Dilke 2nd Baronet

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Godley, John Arthur, 1847-1932, 1st Baron Kilbracken, civil servant

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1882-1883 Commissioner of Inland Revenue; 1883-1909 Permanent Under-Secretary for India. Epithet: civil servant Title: 1st Baron Kilbracken British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000225 ...

Chamberlain, Joseph, 1836-1914

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Joseph Chamberlain was born in 1836; he was educated at University College School, and at the age of sixteen moved from London to Birmingham to join his uncle's screw manufacturing business, Nettlefold and Chamberlain; he became a member of the Birmingham Education Society, the National Education League, and was chairman of the Birmingham School Board [1868-1873]; he was a member of Birmingham Town Council [1872-1880], being Councillor for St Paul's Ward and Mayor [1873-1876]; he was MP for West...

Cavendish, Frederick Charles, Lord, Chief Sec for Ireland

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Baring, Thomas George, 1826-1904, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy of India

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1857-1858 Lord of the Admiralty; 1857–1866 MP for Falmouth and Penryn; 1859-1864 under-secretary, India Office; 1861 and 1868-1872 under-secretary, War Office; 1864-1866 under-secretary, Home Office; 1872-1876 viceroy of India; 1880-1885 first lord of the Admiralty. Epithet: Viceroy of India Title: 1st Earl of Northbrook British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x0003b5 ...

Seymour, Horace Alfred Damer, sec to W E Gladstone, Deputy Master of the Mint

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Epithet: sec to W E Gladstone, Deputy Master of the Mint British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x000086 ...

Dillwyn, Lewis Llewellyn, active 1870-1904, MP

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Wodehouse, John

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Title: 1st Earl of Kimberley British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x000144 Epithet: Lord Wodehouse British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000354.0x00033b Epithet: 1st Baron Wodehouse Title: 6th Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...

Hamilton, Edward Walter, Sir, GCB, sec to W E Gladstone

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Baxter, William Edward, active 1851-1910, MP

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Smith, W. Robertson (William Robertson), 1846-1894

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Epithet: theologian and Semitic scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000279 William Robertson Smith (1846-1894), theologian and Semitic scholar, was born at New Farm, Keig, in the Vale of Alford, Aberdeenshire, and educated at home by his father. He was elevated to a bursary at Aberdeen University in November 1861. In November 1866 he entered New College, the theological hall of the fre...