Lord John Russell - Stuart J. Reid (recommended reading txt) 📗

Raglan, Lord, 246, 252, 267 ‘Recollections and Suggestions,’ publication of, 280 Redistribution of Seats Bill, 330 Redcliffe, Lord Stratford de: skill in diplomacy, and early diplomatic life, 218-220; return to Constantinople, 220, 221; and the second Congress at Vienna, 260 Reform: its early advocates, 25-27; and the Society of the Friends of the People, 25; Lord John Russell’s first speech on the subject, 35; Sir Francis Burdett’s motion of 1819, 35; Lord John brings forward his first resolutions in the House of Commons, 40; disfranchisement of Grampound, 43; Lord John’s motion for an addition of 100 members to the House of Commons, 43; resolutions brought forward by Lord Blandford, 59; rejection of Lord John’s Bill for enfranchising Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, 60; O’Connell’s motion for Triennial Parliaments, &c., 60; declaration of the Duke of Wellington, 61; the Committee of Four and the first Reform Bill, 67, 68; introduction and second reading of the first Bill in the Commons, 69-73; the second Bill, 75-78; public excitement on the rejection of the second Bill by the House of Lords, 79, 80; the third Bill passes the Commons, 81; the Bill passes the House of Lords, and receives the Royal Assent, 84; secured by popular enthusiasm, 85, 87; Lord John’s Bill of 1852, 196; Bill of 1854, 236, 237, 239; Disraeli’s Bill, 291, 292; Lord John’s Bill of 1860, 296; Bill introduced by Mr. Gladstone, 328 Regent, Prince, insulted on returning from opening Parliament, 32; and the Peterloo Massacre, 38 Revolution, French (1848), 171 Rice, Mr. Spring, 96 Richmond, Duke of, 89, 95, 124 Ripon, Lord, 95, 124 Roden, Lord, 113 Roebuck, J. A., and education, 89; moves vote of confidence in the Russell Administration, 176; his motion to inquire into the condition of the Army in the Crimea, 254 Rogers, Samuel, 123, 276 Rothschild, Baron, 291 Russell, Mr. G. W. E., 344 Russell, John, the first Constable of Corfe Castle, 1, 2 Russell, Sir John, Speaker of the House of Commons, 2 Russell, John, the third, and first Earl of Bedford, 2 Russell, Lord John: ancestry, 1, 2; boyhood and education, 3-9; schooldays at Sunbury and Westminster, 3-5; extracts from journal kept at Westminster, 4, 5; passion for the theatre, 4; education under Dr. Cartwright, 5; dedicates a manuscript book to Pitt, 6; schooldays and schoolfellows at Woodnesborough, 6-9; writes satirical verses and dramatic prologues, 7, 8; opinion on the case of Lord Melville, 8; influence of Mr. Fox upon him, 8; at Holland House, 8, 336; friendship with Sydney Smith, 8; visit to the English lakes and Scotland, 9; impressions of Sir Walter Scott, 9; first visit to the House of Lords, 9; visit to the Peninsula with Lord and Lady Holland, 9-11; political predilections and sympathy with Spain, 9-11; goes to Edinburgh University, 11; impressions of Professors Dugald Stewart and John Playfair, 12, 13; his powers of debate at the Edinburgh Speculative Society, 13; early bias towards Parliamentary Reform, 14; second visit to Spain, 14, 15; first impressions of Lord Wellington, 15; commands a company of the Bedfordshire Militia, 16; third visit to Spain, 16-20; on the field of Salamanca, 17; at Wellington’s head-quarters, 17; his ride to Frenida, 18; dines with a canon at Plasencia, 19; at Talavera and Madrid, 20; elected member for Tavistock, 20; his opinion of Lord Liverpool, 21; maiden speech in Parliament, 27; speech on the Alien Acts, 27; elected a member of Grillion’s Club, 27; his Italian tour of 1814-15, 28-31; interview with Napoleon at Elba, 28-31; speeches in Parliament against the renewal of war with France, against the income-tax and the Army Estimates, 32; on the proposal to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, 33, 34; proposes to abandon politics, 34; literary labours and travel, 34; returned again for Tavistock at the General Election of 1818, 34; first speech in the House of Commons on Parliamentary Reform, 35; growth of his influence in Parliament, 36; visit to the Continent with Thomas Moore, 36, 37; impressions of Italy, 37; brings forward in Parliament his first resolutions in favour of Reform, 40; his bill for disfranchising Penryn, Camelford, Grampound, and Barnstaple, 40; returned to Parliament for Huntingdon, 40; and the case of Grampound, 40, 41, 42, 43; takes the side of Queen Caroline, 41; writes ‘The Nun of Arrouca,’ 42; taciturnity in French society, 42; his resolutions for the discovery and punishment of bribery, &c., 43, 44; proposes an addition of 100 members to the House of Commons, 43; increase of his political influence, 45, 46; unseated in Huntingdonshire, and his second visit to Italy, 48, 49; elected for Bandon Bridge, 49; on the condition of the Tory party on Canning’s accession to power, 50; and restrictions upon Dissenters, 51; proposal to enfranchise Manchester, 51; moves the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 55-57; and Catholic Emancipation, 59; rejection of his bill for enfranchising Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, 60; defeated at Bedford, 60; visit to Paris, and efforts to save the life of Prince de Polignac, 60, 61; elected for Tavistock, and appointed Paymaster-General, 62; prepares the first Reform Bill in conjunction with Lord Durham and others, 67; introduces the bill, 69-72; moves the second reading of the Bill, 73; returned to Parliament for Devonshire, 75; raised to Cabinet rank, and introduces second Reform Bill, 75; reply to vote of thanks from Birmingham, 79; introduces the third Reform Bill, 80; carries the bill to the Lords, 81; and the Municipal Reform Act, 90, 104; opposition to Radical measures, 90; and the wants of Ireland, 91; visit to Ireland, 91, 92; on Mr. Littleton’s Irish Tithe Bill, 94, 95; ‘upsets the coach,’ 95; on Coercion Acts, 97, 98; allusion to his Biography of Fox, 98; and the leadership in the House of Commons under the first Melbourne Ministry, 100, 101; William IV.’s opinion of him, 101; returned for South Devon on Peel’s accession to power, 102; as leader of the Opposition, 103; and the meeting at Lichfield House, 103; defeats the Government with his Irish Church motion, 104; marriage, 104, 355; appointment to the Home Office in the second Melbourne Administration, 104; defeated in Devonshire, and elected for Stroud, 104; presented with a testimonial at Bristol, 105; and the Dissenters’ Marriage Bill, 106; and the Tithe Commutation Act, 106, 107; again returned for Stroud, 107; allusion to the accession of the Queen, 108; declines to take part in further measures of Reform, and is called by Radicals ‘Finality John,’ 110; death of his wife, 112; Education Bill of 1839, 114, 115; as Colonial Secretary, 116-118, 338; his appointment of a Chartist magistrate, 119; and the Corn Laws, 121; returned for the City of London, 122; second marriage, 123; Wellington’s opinion of him, 123; his opinion of Peel’s Administration, 126; supports Peel on the Maynooth question, 129, 130; and the repeal of the Corn Laws, 131-134, 139; and the ‘Edinburgh Letter,’ 133; fails to form a Ministry on the resignation of Peel, 134, 135; opposes Peel’s proposal for renewal of Coercion Act, 139, 140; succeeds Peel as Prime Minister, 141; address in the City, 142; political qualities, 143, 145; contrasted with Palmerston, 144; his measure for total repeal of Corn Laws, 145; and sugar duties, 146; proposes renewal of Irish Arms Bill, 146; his Irish policy, and anxiety and efforts for the improvement of the people, 151, 152, 156, 157, 158, 338, 342; and the Arms Bill (1847), 154; again visits Ireland, 158; education measures, 159; returned again for the City, 160; his appointment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford, 161; and the Chartist demonstration of 1848, 166, 168; relations with Lord Palmerston, 170; on the political situation in Europe after the French Revolution of 1848, 171, 172; and Palmerston’s action in the ‘Don Pacifico’ affair, 176; tribute to Sir Robert Peel, 177; dismisses Palmerston from the Foreign Office, 180; and the breach with Palmerston, 181; his ‘Durham Letter,’ 184-191; introduces the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, 191; resigns the Premiership, but returns to office on the failure of Lord Stanley to form a Ministry, 193; resignation on the vote on the Militia Bill, 195; his Reform