¹ Diarist's stepchildren. Derby was at Knowsley until 18 Jan., apart from a visit to his mother at his brother's house, Witherslack, N. Lancs. (2 Jan.). On 15–17 Jan. he chaired Kirkdale quarter sessions, then returned (18 Jan.) to London.

² Father-in-law of diarist's stepdaughter, née Lady Mary Cecil.

³ Henry Thomas Stanley (1803–75), diarist's uncle.

⁴ C.B. Adderley, 1st Baron Norton (1814–1905), cr. peer Apr. 1878; pres, of board of trade 1874–8.

⁵ C.J. Vaughan (1816–97), headmaster of Harrow 1844–59.

⁶ Derby resigned, 21 Jan. 1873, followed by Northcote. Cf. Chandos, John, Boys Together (1984), 244–5Google Scholar; excessive zeal by a prefect had excited controversy.

⁷ Near Bromley, Kent.

⁸ Premier's brother.

⁹ (Sir) James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–94), legal member of council in India 1869–72.

¹⁰ W.S. Caine (1842–1903), zealot: not M.P. until 1880.

¹¹ H, ccxiv, 16–26 (6 Feb. 1873). Derby declared that Irish improvement was illusory (despite a coercion act ‘the most stringent and severe passed within my recollection’) and saw no hope of settling the Irish university question. He warned against ‘a system of alliances and protectorates on the E. African coast which could be of no possible advantage’, and deplored any idea of extending India's frontiers (‘that country has at present as good a military frontier as could well be drawn’). He was strongly critical of the legal basis of the Alabama settlement, as laying down trouble for the future. He noted that ‘the battle between capital and labour never was fiercer’; that the record price of coal threatened U.K. industry; and that buoyant revenues came mainly from drink. ‘We have drunk ourselves out of the American difficulty’.

¹² His brother.

¹³ Samuel Plimsoll (1824–98), M.P. (Lib.) Derby 1868–80.

¹⁴ Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), bibliophile.

¹⁵ A.J. Balfour, later premier.

¹⁶ Sir Charles Wood, 1st Vt Halifax (1800–85), Whig min., ending as lord privy seal, 1870–4.

¹⁷ R.H. Hutton (1826–97), co-editor of Spectator 1861–1897.Google Scholar

¹⁸ E.T.B. Twisleton (1809–74), member of public bodies.

¹⁹ Whig secession of 1830s led by the elder Derby.

²⁰ Spencer Walpole (1806–98), Derbyite home sec. 1852, 1858–9, 1866–7.

²¹ Wilberforce.

²² Derby's tour of France, Switzerland, and Italy, with Lady Derby's depression in mind, lasted from 15 Feb. to 14 Mar.; thus he missed Gladstone's defeat on the Irish Universities Bill (11 Mar.) on hearing of which he wrote, ‘I do not suppose that a Conservative Government is either possible or desirable’.

²³ Richard Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons (1817–87), succ. 1858; amb. in Paris 1867–87; cr. vt 1881, earl 1887; offered F.O. by Salisbury 1886; R.C. convert 1887.

²⁴ Georgiana, née Wellesley, Lady Dalling and Bulwer (1817–78); a Cecil on her mother's side.

²⁵ Amb. at Constantinople 1858–65; cr. peer 1871. There was a twofold link between him and the Cecil interest. His mother-in-law was a dau. of the 1st M., while his bro. m. the sister of the 2nd M. of Salisbury's 1st wife.

²⁶ Sir Richard Burton (1821–90), explorer; consul at Trieste, 1872–90.

²⁷ Printed, with Disraeli's riposte, in Guedalla, P., The Queen and Mr. Gladstone (1933) i, 399–402.Google Scholar

²⁸ Montagu (‘Monty’) Corry (1838–1903), Disraeli's priv. sec. 1866–81; cr. Baron Rowton, 1880.

²⁹ George Barrington, 7th Vt Barrington (1824–86); sometime priv. sec. to Derby when premier; held minor offices, 1874–80, 1885–6, 1886; cr. Baron Shute, 1880; succ. father in viscountcy, 1883; intimate of Disraeli, who however called him ‘stupid and uninteresting’; but one of v. few to whom Disraeli chatted on front bench.

³⁰ Richard Grenville, 3rd D. of Buckingham (1823–89), suce. 1861; chmn., L.N.W.R., 1853–61; pres, of council 1866–7, col. sec. 1867–8; gov. of Madras 1875–80 (previously offered to Lytton); reputable s. of reprobate father.

³¹ Lord Henry Lennox (1821–86), Cons. M.P. 1846–85; whip 1852, 1858–9; sec. to admiralty 1866–8, where seen by diarist as talented; when young, close to Disraeli; 1st commr of public works, 1874–6, resigning after financial scandal; bro. of D. of Richmond who sat in Disraeli's cabinet.

³² Charles Bradlaugh (1833–91), free-thinker.

³³ Derby was a pallbearer at Darwin's funeral.

³⁴ (Sir) Arthur Arnold (1833–1902), progressive publicist.

³⁵ See Morley, , Gladstone, ii543–4.Google Scholar

³⁶ Diarist's uncle.

³⁷ John Lawrence, Baron Lawrence (1811–79), Gov.-Gen. of India 1863–Sept. 1868.

³⁸ David Marjoribanks (Robertson from 1834), 1st Baron Marjoribanks (1797–1873), 4th s. of a Scottish laird; became London merchant; M.P. (Lib.) 1859–73; lord-lt. Berwickshire 1860–73; peer, 12–19 June 1873 (died), title becoming extinct.

³⁹ J.E. Cairnes (1823–75), economist; prof, at Univ. Coll. London from 1866.

⁴⁰ Lord Sancton's father in fact lived until 1882.

⁴¹ David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore (1838–1919), M.P. (Cons.) Dublin Univ. 1870–95: cr. peer, 1895.

⁴² Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), author.

⁴³ For Arthur (1851–1913) and Lionel Cecil (1853–1901), Lady Derby's sons, see Later Diaries, 15–17Google Scholar. The mésalliance went ahead.

⁴⁴ Created Aug. 1885.

⁴⁵ London, Chatham, and Dover.

⁴⁶ Of Northumberland.

⁴⁷ Bath returned 2 libs, in 1868. In byelections (May 1873 and June 1873) there were 2 Cons, gains; hence the surprise over the third byelection.

⁴⁸ N. Sumatra.

⁴⁹ Returned unopposed.

⁵⁰ T, 17 Oct. 1873, 10a.

⁵¹ Cf. Batanan, which notes Salisbury as having 1796 acres in Lanes., yielding £7999.

⁵² Patten's eldest s. Eustace d. Dec. 1873. Cowley's sons lived to 1895, 1916, and 1931.

⁵³ Sir W. Bovili, chief justice 1866–73.

⁵⁴ Sir Francis Grant (1803–78), president R.A. 1866–78.

⁵⁵ Harriet Grote (1792–1878), bluestocking, widow of George Grote (1794–1871), radical.

⁵⁶ Among Lytton's papers in Herts. County Record Office are MSS of 3 complete plays and 3 fragmentary novels. The unpublished essay ‘Our political state and its prospects’ (bundle D/EK W 46) may be the item mentioned by his son. Many Disraeli letters appear in the lives of Lytton by his son and grandson. I am indebted to Andrew Brown of C.U.P. for this information.

⁵⁷ Henry George Grey, 3rd E. Grey (1802–94), succ. 1845; col. sec. 1846–52.

⁵⁸ Thomas Baring (1799–1873), head of Barings 1828–71; see Stanley Diaries, 350, n.34.Google Scholar

⁵⁹ Artist and doctor respectively.

⁶⁰ Diarist's uncle.

⁶¹ Sir R. Morier (1826–93), diplomatist; in Germany 1853–76; promoted by diarist to min. at Lisbon, 1876–81; see Ramm, A., Sir Robert Morier 1876–1893, Envoy and Ambassador (1973).Google Scholar

⁶² William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th D. of Hamilton (1845–95), succ. 1863; contents of Hamilton Palace fetched £400,000 (1882).

⁶³ Dau. of D. of Manchester.

⁶⁴ W.B. Brett, 1st Vt Esher (1815–99), Judge 1868–97; cr. baron 1885, vt 1897.

⁶⁵ George Russell, 10th D. of Bedford (1852–93), styled Lord Tavistock 1872–91, when succ.; M.P. (Lib.) Beds. 1875–85, but never prominent.

⁶⁶ John Hamilton Gordon, 7th E. of Aberdeen (1847–1934) succ. 1870, on drowning of 776 bro.; other bro. d. in shooting accident (G.E.C.); respected public figure, governing Canada and Ireland; wife of his s. not only in trade, but had first m. when her 2nd husband was only two.

⁶⁷ William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly (1812–94), (Lib.) Limerick 1847–74; P.m.g. 1971–3, when postal finances questioned; R.C. convert 1850, but Unionist, 1886.

⁶⁸ T.G. Baring, 1st E. of Northbrook (1826–1904), s. of 1st Baron; succ. 1866; Gov.- Gen. of India 1872–6; cr. earl 1876.

⁶⁹ Diarist's uncle.

⁷⁰ Diarist's only brother.

⁷¹ Dowager Lady Derby, the diarist's mother.

⁷² In a will made Feb. 1874, Derby left his wife £20,000 cash and a life interest in Fairhill. To Talbot, Hornby, and Sanderson he left £1000 each; to Moult and Statter, £500 each. To his servants, he left 2 months wages for each year of service, ‘as in my father's will’. All the rest he left to his brother.