¹ Tipperary.

² Diarist's wife.

³ Princess Louise (1848–1939), the Queen's 5th dau., m. 21 Mar. 1871 Lord Lome (1845–1914), who succ. father as 9th D. of Argyll, 1900.

⁴ Sir George Grey (1799–82), home sec. in Lib govts 1846–52, 1855–8, 1861–6; retired from office 1866, but remained an M.P. until 1874.

⁵ President Grant (1822–85), president 1867–77; Hamilton Fish (1808–93), sec. of state 1869–77.

⁶ Clarendon, Bright, and Childers.

⁷ Thomas Brassey (1805–70), railway contractor.

⁸ Archibald Primrose, 5th E. of Rosebery (1847–1929), premier 1894–5.

⁹ Andalusia, Lady Molesworth (1809–88), Lib. political hostess; widow of Sir W. Molesworth (1810–55), radical cabinet minister.

¹⁰ Henri, Duc d'Aumale (1822–97), 5tn s. of Louis Philippe; in England 1848–71; dedicatee of Lothair, for Disraeli, one of ‘the two most richly cultivated minds I ever met’ (Blake, , Disraeli, 431).Google Scholar

¹¹ Chichester Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford (1823–98) Irish sec. 1865–6, 1868–70; pres, of board of trade, vice Bright, Dec. 1870–4; cr. peer, 1874; Id. privy seal 1881–5; Id pres, of council 1883–5; lib. unionist 1886.

¹² Frances, Lady Waldegrave, née Braham (1821–79); m., 4thly, Chichester Fortescue; Harcourt's aunt; Lib. political hostess.

¹³ George Douglas Campbell, 8th D. of Argyll (1823–1900), succ. 1847; sec. for India, 1868–74.

¹⁴ Arthur Stanhope, 6th E. Stanhope (1838–1905); as Vt Mahon (1855–75), M.P. (Cons.) 1868, 1870–5; junior office 1874–5; succ. father 1875; first church estates commr 1878–1905.

¹⁵ H. vol. 204, cols 839–54 (Treaty of Paris) and cols 1003–8 (on Westmeath Committee), delivered 24 and 27 Feb. respectively.

¹⁶ On Westmeath Committee, H, vol 204, col 1179 (2 March).

¹⁷ H, 9 Mar. 1871.

¹⁸ Briefly Irish sec. under Disraeli, 1868.

¹⁹ H. A. Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (1815–95), home sec. 1868–73; cr. peer 1873; lord pres, of council 1873–4.

²⁰ Hon. [E.] Frederick Leveson-Gower (1819–1907), Granville's bro.; M.P. (Lib.) Bodmin 1859–85.

²¹ Mary, wife of German orientalist; held salon in Paris, which Derbys visited (Feb. 1872).

²² Ivan Turgenev (1818–83), novelist.

²³ Defeated, 197 to 97, on whig motion: H, vol 205, col. 1867.

²⁴ G. J. Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen (1831–1907), pres, of poor law board 1868–71; 1st lord of admiralty 1871–4.

²⁵ Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th M. of Lansdowne (1845–1927), succ. 1866; lib. junior minister 1869–74, 1880 (resigned); governed Canada and India, then Unionist statesman.

²⁶ Dudley Ryder, 3rd E. of Harrowby (1831–1900), M.P. 1856–60, 1868–82; succ. 1882; as Vt Sandon, vice-pres. of council 1874–8 (outside cabinet); pres, of board of trade 1878–80; lord privy seal 1885–6, both in cabinet.

²⁷ William Rathbone (1819–1902), Liverpool merchant, philanthropist, and Lib. M.P.

²⁸ T, 2 June 1871, 12C.

²⁹ Treaty of Washington (8 May 1871), submitting Alabama claims to arbitration.

³⁰ Edmund Hammond, 1st Baron Hammond (1802–90), perm, under-sec, at F.O. 1854–73; cr. peer 1874.

³¹ J. T. Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1805–86), cr. earl 1877; chmn of ctees. and dep. speaker in H. of L. 1851–86; ‘narrow, prejudiced, and utterly unaware of what is going on in the country’ (Disraeli, 1880). Derby refers to ‘his laborious habits and honesty in dealing with private bills’ but also to ‘his obstinacy and ill manners and the many enemies he has made’ (Derby diary, 28 Aug. 1876).

³² Russell opposed the Washington Treaty (12 June); H, 12 June 1871.

³³ Henry Wellesley, 1st E. Cowley (1804–84), amb. at Paris 1852–67.

³⁴ Napoleon III.

³⁵ Dau. of George Canning, premier; mother of Lord Dunkellin, whose motion destroyed the Russell ministry of 1865–67; wife of Palmerstonian Galway landlord.

³⁶ John Francis Maguire (d. 1873), mayor of Cork 1861–4; f. (1841) and ed. Cork Examiner, R.C.; M.P. Dungarvan 1852–65 and Cork C. 1865–72; N. D. Murphy, M.P. Cork C. 1862–80, solicitor; McCarthy Downing (1814–79), M.P. Cork Co. 1814–79, solictor.

³⁷ Benjamin Lucraft (1809–97), trade unionist and radical leader; member of General Council of First International 1864–71, and of London School Board.

³⁸ George Odger (1820–77), pres, of First International 1870; leading trade unionist and working man's candidate.

³⁹ H, vol. 207, col 406 (22 June 1871): ‘There is the question of the franchise. Many of us may think that great question may advantageously receive, at any early period, further attention’.

⁴⁰ Francis Seymour, 8th M. of Hertford (1812–84); army career; became general (1876).

⁴¹ Charles Hardinge, 2nd Vt Hardinge (1822–94), M.P. (Cons.) 1851–6; succ. 1856; under-sec, for war 1858–9.

⁴² Thornton Leigh Hunt (1810–73), journalist.

⁴³ On army regulation bill, 17 July 1871, H, ccvii, 1849–59, urging rejection of bill on general grounds of refusing to pander to democratic opinion, though Salisbury also praised purchase as procuring ‘an easy Army retirement and a pure system of promotion’. Earlier in the debate Derby, in opposition to his party, had urged ‘Get rid of it now’ before it became an election issue. He had privately pressed the government to abolish purchase: ‘I believe you could hardly take up a more popular question’. (Derby to Halifax, 17 Dec. 1870, Halifax MSS.)

⁴⁴ Sir John Pakington (né Russell), 1st Baron Hampton (1799–1880); M.P. (Cons.) 1837–74; cr. peer by Disraeli on losing seat, 1874; involved with diarist in social reform in 1850s (Stanley Journals, 143–5).Google Scholar

⁴⁵ John Scott Russell (1808–82), shipbuilder; sec. to the society of arts 1845–50; jr. sec. to Great Exhibition, 1851; with partners, bought the Exhibition building; bankrupt 1861, annulled 1862; F.R.S. 1849; wrote Systematic Technical Education for the English People (1869)Google Scholar, and works on naval architecture.

⁴⁶ For a summary of press reports on the New Social Movement, see Ann. Reg. 1871, 117–20.Google Scholar

⁴⁷ Napoleon III.

⁴⁸ Defeated in the Lords 97–48 (10 August 1971).

⁴⁹ Cons, gain by 3912 to 2749 (26 Aug. 1871); in 1868 the Libs won by 384.

⁵⁰ Hence the unbroken Liberalism of Bury, so untypical of Lancashire towns.

⁵¹ Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th E. of Shaftesbury (1801–85), philanthropist.

⁵² 2 Sept. 1871, taking strong radical line.

⁵³ Constance Stanley née Villiers, Clarendon's daughter.

⁵⁴ Isaac Butt (1813–79), Irish leader; professor of political economy, Trinity College, Dublin, 1836; protectionist, 1849; entered parliament, 1852, as Derbyite; led Irish home rule party 1870–9; cf. Stanley Journals, 322Google Scholar, describing Butt as ‘now a pauper, and with a ruined character’; protestant.

⁵⁵ T, 27 Sept. 1871, 6 a-f. Reprinted in Vincent, John, ‘Gladstone and Ireland’, Proceedings of the British Academy, lxiii (1977), 232–6.Google Scholar

⁵⁶ Sir Robert Gerard, 1st Baron Gerard of Bryn (1808–87), cr. Peer 1876; R.C., with estates, mostly in S. Lancs., worth £43,000 p.a.

⁵⁷ T, 5 Oct. 1871, 12C. Pakington stressed English technical backwardness, as laid bare in Scott Russell's recent pamphlet, and urged a great extension of education.

⁵⁸ (Sir) R. A. Cross (1823–1914), Lancastrian; M.P. Cons. 1857–62, 1868–86; educ. with diarist at Rugby and Trinity, Cambridge; bar, 1849; home sec. 1874–80, 1885–6; cr. vt 1886; Indian sec. 1886–92; lord privy seal 1895–1900; banker, social reformer, private financial adviser to the Queen; on local bench with Derby.

⁵⁹ See below, 9 and 18 Feb. 1874, for Derby's influence on Cross's promotion to cabinet.

⁶⁰ ir M. E. Hicks Beach (1837–1916), 1st Lord St Aldwyn; Cons. M.P. 1864–1906; junior office 1868; chief sec. for Ireland 1874–8, 1886–7; col. sec. 1878–80; chanc. of exchequer 1885–6, 1895–1902; cr. vt 1906, earl 1916.

⁶¹ At Blackheath, 28 Oct. 1871.

⁶² John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly (1802–74), master of rolls 1851–73.

⁶³ W. Hornby, comptroller of Derby's household.

⁶⁴ P. of Wales nearly d. of typhoid, 8–14 Dec. 1871.

⁶⁵ Sir C. W. Dilke (1843–1911), 2nd Bt; M.P. (lib.) 1868–86, 1892–1911; notorious republican in early 1870s; for. under-sec. 1880–2; pres, of local govt board 1882–5 (in cabinet); ruined by scandal, 1886.

⁶⁶ Alan Stewart, 10th E. of Galloway (1835–1901), suce, father 1873; previously Lord Garlies; m. Derby's step-dau. Lady Mary Cecil (1850–1903) 25 Jan. 1872; d.s.p.