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1868

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I went to Phillimore's for the night. At Reading Station I was overwhelmed by the news of Lord Salisbury's most sudden death.272 The result will be great and I am afraid very unfortunate. Cranborne's removal to the House of Lords though it will strengthen my hands wonderfully and be personally very pleasant to me leaves the Conservative Party without anyone to rally round. Disraeli almost becomes a necessity to them and I am afraid that it will drive them to him and strengthen him.273 Politically matters look very gloomy to me.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 35 , December 2009 , pp. 173 - 176
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272 James Brownlow William Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, died on 12 April at Hatfield.

273 Disraeli had become Prime Minister on the resignation of Derby on 27 February.

274 Compulsory Church Rates Abolition Bill, second reading. Hansard, CXCI, 23 April 1868, Derby, cols 1124 –1127, Carnarvon, cols 1127–1129.

275 Anniversary dinner held at the Royal Academy: see The Times, 4 May 1868, p. 10.

276 Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873), noted painter of animals.

277 John Bright (1811–1889), Lib. MP for Birmingham (1857–1885), President of the Board of Trade (1868–1870), Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster (1873–1874).

278 The Government had been defeated on 30 April in the Commons on the Established Church (Ireland) Bill in Committee by 330 to 265. For Disraeli's statement, see Hansard, CXCI, cols 1694–1707.

279 Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827–1904), Lib. MP for Oxford (1868–1880), Derby (1880–1895), and Monmouthshire (1895–1904), Solicitor-General (1873–1874), Home Secretary (1880–1885), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1886, 1892–1895).

280 Established Church (Ireland) Bill, second reading: Hansard, CXCIII, 26 June 1868, cols 4–19.

281 Ibid., Salisbury, cols 39–90.

282 Ibid., cols 243–283.

283 John Rogerson (1835–1916), 10th Baron Rollo (1852), Lib. peer, later Unionist.

284 Charles Somers-Cocks (1819–1883), 3rd Earl Somers (1852), Lord-in-Waiting (1853–1857).

285 At the general election, the Liberals came into office with 354 seats, the Conservatives holding 272. Disraeli immediately resigned, together with his Cabinet, over Irish Church disestablishment.

286 Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach (1837–1916), Con. MP for Gloucestershire East (1864–1885) and for Bristol West (1885–1906), Chief Secretary for Ireland (1874–1878, 1886–1887), Colonial Secretary (1878–1880), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1885–1886, 1895–1902), created Earl St Aldwyn (1913).

287 See The Times, 3 December 1868, p. 9.