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1873

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

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Dined at Grillions and oddly enough I found myself within one seat of Disraeli. At first he wore his Egyptian sphinx-like face as if he saw and did not see me, but I thought that this was unnecessary and absurd and so I opened the conversation on a literary topic and we then talked in a very friendly, and so far as he was concerned, in a very agreeable way.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 35 , December 2009 , pp. 203 - 206
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2009

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349 Baron Paul Julius von Reuter (1816–1899), who founded the first news agency, had obtained a concession accorded by the Shah of Persia the previous year to be given absolute right to provide the country's transport, exploit mining potentialities, and have preference in producing manufactured goods. Details of the concession emerged only a year later. See The Times, 5 July 1873, p. 7.

350 Anne Elizabeth Stanhope (1802–1885), wife of George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield, and a confidante of Disraeli.

351 Dr John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Attorney-General for Ireland (1868–1875), Lord Chancellor of Ireland (1875–1880).

352 Disraeli had written, ‘At half past 5 o'clock today, Lord Cairns had agreed to sanction the defeat of the measure, and pressed on me to ensure its being sent to your House if possible tomorrow. We arranged that the Rating Bill, which was to have been thrown out, should in consequence pass. Two hours afterwards, he sent for me and said all was at sea again, in consequence of the decided opposition of Lord Derby to the proposed course’ (Disraeli to Carnarvon, 22 July 1873: CP, BL 60765, fo. 11).

353 Ibid., fo. 12.

354 Hansard, CCXVII, 24 July 1873, cols 886–898. Carnarvon told Disraeli afterwards, ‘I am sorry for the result of Thursday night. We made the best fight we could and but for a singularly untoward combination of unlucky circumstances might have been successful’ (Carnarvon to Disraeli, 26 July 1873: CP, BL 60763, fo. 13). The Judicature Act amalgamated the superior courts into two divisions, the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal.

355 Lord Henry George Gordon Lennox (1821–1886), third son of 5th Duke of Richmond. Con. MP for Chichester (1866–1885), Secretary to the Admiralty (1866–1868), Commissioner of Public Works (1874–1876).

356 Frederick Arthur Stanley (1841–1908), younger son of 14th Earl of Derby. Con. MP for Lancashire North (1868–1885) and for Blackpool (1885–1886), Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1868), Secretary of State for War (1878–1880), Colonial Secretary (1885–1886), President of the Board of Trade (1886–1888), Governor-General of Canada (1888–1893), succeeded his brother as 16th Earl of Derby (1893).