¹ Estate accountant at Knowsley, working on the estate for more than 50 years; d. 3 Feb. 1876; ‘an upright hardworking man: I shall miss him in many ways’ wrote Derby (diary, 4 Feb. 1876); succ. in the post by his son.

² Manchester banker, and holder of the estate's account.

³ Thomas, 6th E. (1811–96): no relation.

⁴ Thomas, 2nd E. (1799–1882), succ. 1814; his 1st wife a dau. of 12th Lord Derby: sportsman, dandy, musician.

⁵ Col. Charles James Fox Stanley (1808–84), 3rd s. of 13th Lord Derby.

⁶ Emma Charlotte (1835–1928), the diarist's only sister, who m. 1860, Sir W.P.M. Chetwynd-Talbot (1817–98), her father's former priv. sec., bro. of 18th E. of Shrewsbury.

⁷ Edward Penrhyn of East Sheen, Surrey, chmn of Surrey quarter sessions; s. of Lady Charlotte Stanley, e.d. of 13th Lord Derby.

⁸ Henry Thomas Stanley (1803–75), 2nd s. of 13th Lord Derby: black sheep of the family.

⁹ The 12th E.'s sister m. a Hornby, as did the 13th E.

¹⁰ Edward Stanley, 14th E. of Derby (1799–69), premier 1852, 1858–9, 1866–8; diarist's father.

¹¹ Frederick Stanley, 16th E. of Derby (1841–1908); diarist's heir and only brother; army career 1858–65; M.P. (Cons) Preston 1865–8, Lancs. N. 1868–85, Blackpool 1885–6; m. Lady Constance Villiers, Clarendon's dau., 1864; jun. office 1868, fin. sec. to war office 1874–7, fin. sec. to treasury 1877–8; sec. for war, 1878–80 (entering cabinet on brother's resignation), col. sec. 1885–6, pres, of board of trade 1886; cr. Baron Stanley of Preston, 1886; gov.-gen. of Canada 1886–93; while there, hoped for India, in diarist's view unwisely; in youth liable to depression, in age notably inattentive to business; succ. diarist as E., 1893; known as Col. Stanley, but in diaries as F.; see Gov. Passion, 257–8Google Scholar; Later Diaries 10–14, 72Google Scholar; Crawford Papers, no.

¹² In Westmorland, 7m s.w. of Kendal.

¹³ T, 5 Oct. 1869, 7f; 6 Oct 1869, 10 c. Derby had visited an ironworks (4 Oct.) erected by a building firm, many of whose shareholders were employees. To celebrate its completion, he presided at a workingmen's banquet (5 Oct.), then inaugurated the Operatives Trades Hall, intended to draw trade unionism from the pub. He commended unions as the only way workers ‘can meet their employers on terms of equality’; condemned ‘the indiscriminate outcry against them’; lauded the idea that workers ‘shall to some extend share in the profit’, and saw in co-operative production ‘the best, the surest remedy’ for industrial conflict; with ‘nothing asked from the State except neutrality and fair play’. Samuel R. Graves (d. Jan. 1873), M.P. (Cons.) Liverpool 1865–73, and William Rathbone (1819–1902), M.P. (Lib.) Liverpool 1868–70, were leading local figures.

¹⁴ Local doctor.

¹⁵ Specialist.

¹⁶ Derby died peacefully at 6.55 a.m.

¹⁷ Not traced under these initials. The Hopwoods of Hopwood Hall, Lancs., had intermarried with the Stanleys; Canon F.G. Hopwood was successively incumbent of Knowsley and Rector of Winwick, another Lanes, parish, both livings in the late Derby's gift: and four Hopwoods, including Rev. W. Hopwood, were in the family party following the hearse.

¹⁸ Cf. T, 25 Oct. 1869, 8d, for the diarist's letter to Sefton, referring to his father's written instructions for a strictly private burial in Knowsley parish church, built by the deceased, and equipped by him with a family tomb designed for 24 coffins. (His predecessors since 1572 had been buried in Ormskirk parish church). At the funeral, a servant walked ahead of the hearse bearing Derby's coronet on a velvet cushion. The congregation was restricted to tenants, servants, and family; the absent Disraeli sent a tribute. At the burial, the diarist was seen to be greatly distressed.

¹⁹ For details of the Irish estate, which the deceased had recently wished to sell, see Stanley Journals, 343Google Scholar (8 and 28 Sept. 1869). The Witherslack estate was made over to F. (diary 10 Nov. 1869): ‘It is pleasant to see how keen his enjoyment; and not without reason, for the place is unusually picturesque, and it is the first land he has ever owned.’

²⁰ Sir William Wyndham Hornby (1812–99), K.C.B., J.P., D.L. Middx and Lanes.; admiral, ret. 1864; commr of prisons 1877; the 13th Lord Derby's wife was Hornby's father's sister.

²¹ T, 25 Oct., 7e, gave a biographical sketch of the deceased, while a leader (6d) asserted that he was ‘not a great man’. T, 26 Oct., 8c, had another disparaging leader on the late E.; another leader (8d) argued that the diarist was ‘not a Conservative in any reasonable sense of the term’.

²² (Sir) A.H. Layard (1817–94), author of Nineveh and its Remains (1848–1849)Google Scholar; M.P. (Lib.) 1852–7, 1860–8; under-sec, for foreign affairs 1861–6; 1st commr of works 1868–9; min-at Madrid 1869–77; amb. at Constantinople 1877–80.

²³ George William Frederick Villiers, 4th E. of Clarendon (1800–70); succ. his uncle in title, 1838; foreign sec. 1855–8, 1865–6, 1868–70, dying in office.

²⁴ A.S. Ayrton (1816–86), M.P. (Lib.) Tower Hamlets 1857–74; Bombay lawyer to c. 1850; parl. sec. to treasury, 1868–Nov. 1869; 1st commr of works 1869–73; judge advocate-gen. 1873–4.

²⁵ Robert Lowe, 1st Vt Sherbrooke (1811–92), chanc, of the exchequer 1868–73; home sec. 1873–4; cr. vt 1880.

²⁶ His father's charities for 1868 came to £3,600, excluding those arising from the large Bury estate, the largest item being £1,000 for a church. Derby, the heir, proposed to fix his Lancashire and estate charities at £4,000 p.a., excluding London charities payable from his private purse. In 1868, Derby paid pensions of £680 to retired servants and labourers, and £300 to Dr Gorst for attending the poor gratis (diary, 8 and 11 Nov. 1869). For the late premier's efforts to see that want never went unrelieved in his London parish, see T, 1 Nov. 1869, 5^e.

²⁷ In fact it was £243,716 p.a. (Later Diaries, 6).Google Scholar

²⁸ W. Hornby.

²⁹ Chief agent for the W. Lanes, estates; seen by Derby as too lax with tenants.

³⁰ Thomas Statter (1816–91), elder s. of Robert Statter, agent to E. of Derby; steward of Derby estates in Bury, Pilkington, Cheetham, Salford, Manchester, and Colne, 1841–91; laid out Bootle, planned Bury; bred pointers, grew orchids on a large scale, and was chairman of a gas co.; collected art treasures at Stand Hall, his home near Manchester; seen by Derby as being too hard on tenants and thereby jeopardizing the Derby interest politically.

³¹ Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, second Baron Skelmersdale (1837–98); succ. grandfather 1853; held household office in Cons, ministries 1866–98; cr. E. of Lathom, 1880; m. Clarendon's and dau., 1860; freemason. The diarist's mother was his aunt. The diarist told Carnarvon, when speaking of the Conservatives as a party shortly after his father's death. ‘I shall certainly not de myself to that dog's tail.’ (SirHardinge, Arthur, The Life of Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert Fourth Earl of Carnarvon 1831–1890, iii 46.)Google Scholar

³² His pension was raised to £80 p.a. plus a house, and he was allowed to rent some paddocks in which to raise sheep for the Liverpool market.

³³ John Bright (1811–89), radical; president of board of trade, 1868–70, resigning on health grounds.

³⁴ William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98), premier 1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, 1892–4.

³⁵ Clarendon's house, Herts.

³⁶ Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 3rd M. of Westminster (1825–99); succ. father, Oct. 1869; cr. duke, 1874.

³⁷ Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st E. Cairns (1819–85), lord chancellor 1868, 1874–80; cr. baron 1867, earl 1878.

³⁸ Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81), premier 1868, 1874–80; er. 1st E. of Beaconsfield, Aug. 1876.

³⁹ James Howard Harris, 3rd E. of Malmesbury (1807–89), foreign sec. 1852, 1858–9, lord privy seal 1866–8, 1874–Aug. 1876.

⁴⁰ Sir Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn (1801–85), c.-in-c. Ireland 1865–70; Indian mutiny hero; cr. baron 1866, field-marshal 1877.

⁴¹ Henry George Calcraft (1836–96), civil servant; priv. sec. to presidents of the board of trade, 1859–74; Mr Pinto in Disraeli's Lothair (1870).Google Scholar

⁴² A.C. Tait (1811–82), archbishop 1869–82.

⁴³ By 1887 he had saved £700,000, as well as repaying half a million of debt (Later Diaries, 7–8).Google Scholar

⁴⁴ Lord Augustus Loftus (1817–1904), s. of 2nd M. of Ely; diplomatist, 1837–79; amb. to Russia, 1871–9; gov. of New South Wales, 1879–85; disliked by diarist also because of his Court connections through Jane, Dowager Lady Ely.

⁴⁵ W. Lawrence, family solicitor.

⁴⁶ Manservant.

⁴⁷ Disraeli's birthday.

⁴⁸ For details, cf. Stanley Journals, 346–7Google Scholar. For the impending vacancy in the Cons, leadership in the Lords, caused by Cairn's departure, see M and B, v 113; Disraeli had already written (12 Dec. 1869) that Derby could not be expected to take the post.

⁴⁹ Mary Anne Disraeli (1789?–15 Dec. 1872); cr. Viscountess Beaconsfield, Nov. 1868.