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The Ripon Diary, 1878–80: I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

John P. Rossi
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Beginning suddenly in late November 1878, George Frederick Samuel Robinson, first Marquess of Ripon, decided to keep a diary. Neither in the diary itself nor in his private papers does he give a reason for this action so typical of the Victorians. Ripon maintained his diary faithfully for over sixteen months until involvement in the General Election of 1880 forced him to suspend his daily entries. He renewed the diary briefly in April 1880 following the election and kept it until just before his appointment as Viceroy of India on 29 April 1880.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1973 , pp. 8 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1973 

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References

Notes

1 Lucien, Wolf, The Life of the Marquess of Ripon, two volumes (London, 1921).Google Scholar

2 The Times, 5 September 1874.

3 William, Ewart Gladstone, ‘Ritualism and Ritual’, Contemporary Review, Volume 24, October 1874, p. 674.Google Scholar This sentence later found its way into Gladstone's first pamphlet dealing with the Vatican Council of 1870, The Vatican Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance, published by John Murray in the autumn of 1874.

4 Ripon Papers, British Museum, Add. MSS. 43641, Diary, 2 December 1878.

5 Ibid., Add. MSS. 43626, Ripon to Monsignor John Fisher, 22 March 1880.

6 Ibid., Add. MSS. 43641, Diary, 19 December 1878.

7 Ibid., Diary, 21 December 1879.

8 Ibid., Diary, 28 February and 9 March 1879.

9 Ibid., Add. MSS. 43626, Ripon to Lord Denbigh, 1 and 2 January 1877.

10 Ibid., Add. MSS. 43641, Diary, 7 December 1878.

11 Wolf, Ripon, 1, p. 314.

12 Ripon Papers, Add. MSS. 43641, Diary, 2 January 1879.

13 Ibid., Diary, 2 and 7 December 1878.