Lord Randolph Churchill

The reader, having persevered so long amid the intrigues of party and the warfare of Parliament, may now be glad to escape for a while into the calm atmosphere of a public depar...

Though much is taken, much abides; and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts,...

On the last day in January Mr. Gladstone undertook to form his Administration. Its complexion was indicated by the first of the new appointments: for Mr. Morley became Chief Sec...

The General Election of 1886 surpassed, in the importance of the issue, in the confusion of parties and the sincerity of the combatants, any election since the first Reform Bill...

The cumulative labours of Vanbrugh and ‘Capability’ Brown have succeeded at Blenheim in setting an Italian palace in an English park without apparent incongruity. The combinatio...

Minutely trace man’s life; year after year, Through all his days let all his deeds appear, And then, though some may in that life be strange, Yet there appears no vast nor sudde...

Lord Randolph Churchill had divested himself by a single short letter of all that authority which is centred in a political chief and a Minister of the Crown. The solid array of...

His birth, it seems, by Merlin’s calculation, Was under Venus, Mercury, and Mars; His mind with all their attributes was mixt; And, like those planets, wandering and unfixt.......

‘When it was said that the noble lord, the member for Paddington, had not declared a policy, he pointed, and he was justified in pointing, not to a sentence, nor even to a phras...

It is no part of my task to examine the proceedings of the Special Commission, nor to supply a narrative of that long-drawn and embittered controversy known as ‘Parnellism and C...

‘Your oppression taught them to hate--your concessions to brave you; you exhibited to them how scanty was the stream of your bounty, and how full the tribute of your fear.’--LOR...

‘This is no man of system, then; he is only a man of instincts and insights. A man, nevertheless, who will glare fiercely on any object; and see through it, and conquer it; for...

‘Of this, however, I am well persuaded, that it is better to be impetuous than cautious. For Fortune is a woman who to be kept under must be beaten and roughly handled; and we s...

For nearly three eventful years Mr. Gladstone’s Administration had held power. In the country the popularity and prestige of the great Minister were still immense. His authority...

The Parliamentary session of 1884 began ill for Her Majesty’s Ministers and its first month was like enough to have been their last. While the mover and seconder of the Address...

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own-- He who, secure within, can say: ‘To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Come fair or foul, or rain,...

‘The Tory party in this country is the national party; it is the really democratic party of England. It supports the institutions of the country, because they have been establis...

‘Surely there is no better way to stop the rising of sects and schisms than to reform abuses; to compound the smaller differences; to proceed mildly, and not with sanguinary per...

‘All the politics of the moment,’ said Lord Salisbury on March 5, 1887, to the members of the National Conservative Club, ‘are summarised in the word “Ireland.”’ The fierce stru...

At the Treasury the appointment of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer had been received with no little apprehension. Every great department has an atmosphere and identity of it...

When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fool’d with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse...

In the spring of 1883 Lord Randolph Churchill had invited Lord Salisbury to come forward and head the Tory Democratic movement. In the autumn he determined to persevere alone. T...

111, 116, 153, 327, 437, 491, 497 obstruction, opinion on, i. 150 Parnell Commission, ii. 413, 414 rebuke of the Chair, i. 347 Reform Bill (1884), i. 336, 342 resignation, i. 40...

Fourth Party: Beaconsfield’s approval, i. 154, 223 Budget amendment (1885), i. 398 Coercion policy, opinion as to, i. 197 correspondence, i. 162 dual control question, i. 228 fi...

A serener sphere--The Council of India--Lord Randolph in office--Railway development in India--Mr. Moore--The Russian crisis--The Afghan boundary--Correspondence with the Queen-...

A new situation--General Election of 1892--Lord Randolph unopposed--Friendly dispositions of Conservative leaders--Lord Randolph rejoins their councils--Speech on the Home Rule...

1885-1785: a comparison--Increasing weakness and perplexities of the Ministry--Lord Randolph returns--His authority over the Conservative party--Penjdeh and the Vote of Credit--...

Lord Salisbury’s difficulties--The last of the Woodstock elections--The new ministry--A truce at Westminster--A legislative feat--‘Maamtrasna’ and its consequences--Lord Carnarv...

Embarrassments of the Ministry--‘Too late!’--The advent of the Reform Bill--Divisions in the Conservative party--Lord Randolph and reform--The ‘mud cabin’ argument--Power of Lor...

The General Election--‘An old man in a hurry’--Birmingham--Triumph of the Unionist party--Formation of Lord Salisbury’s second Administration--The lead in the House of Commons--...

The Pigott letter--Action of the Government--Lord Randolph’s warning--The forgery exposed--Report of the Special Commission--Mr. Jennings’ amendment--Lord Randolph’s speech--Mr....

A daring enterprise--The Fourth Party: final phase--The National Union and the Central Committee--The conference at Birmingham--The proceedings of the new council--Dispute with...

A private member--Mr. Chamberlain’s letters--Outcry against Lord Randolph Churchill--Lord Salisbury and Lord Hartington--Failure of a coalition--Protracted Cabinet crisis--A New...

Mr. Gladstone’s Home Rule Administration--The reality of the struggle--Mr. Chamberlain’s position--Lord Randolph and Home Rule--Ulster, 1886--‘The Union party’--Waiting for the...

The Parliament of 1874--A maiden speech--A social quarrel--Ireland--At the Little Lodge--FitzGibbon and Howth--The Historical Society--Irish politics--Butt and Parnell--The begi...

Mr. Gladstone’s meditations--The Home Rule disclosures--Lord Randolph’s Irish policy--Hopes of a Coalition--Lord Randolph’s programme--Lord Salisbury’s reply--Resignation of Lor...

At the Treasury--Lord Randolph as an official--Secret Service money--The Metropolitan coal and wine dues--Preparation of the Budget--Democratic finance--The death duties--The in...

A period of crisis--Conditions in the House of Commons--Conservative paralysis--The new champion--Power and popularity of Lord Randolph Churchill--The Tory Democrat--A ‘Trilogy’...

Position of parties--Tory depression--Bradlaugh--The origin of the Fourth Party--The four friends--The Employers’ Liability Bill--Fourth Party tactics--Differences with leaders-...

The war in Egypt--The Conservative leaders--Minor tactics in the House of Commons--Correspondence with Sir Stafford Northcote--The Beaconsfield statue--Lord Randolph’s letter to...

Lord Randolph Churchill’s resignation announced--Consideration of rival forces and principles in the Conservative party--The conflict in the Cabinet--Various differences--Retren...

Ireland still--The Liberal Unionists--Coercion--Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Chamberlain--Dream of a central party--Difficulties of co-operation--A severance--Correspondence...

Irish Local Government--A disregarded pledge--Suakin--Vacancy at Birmingham--Mr. Chamberlain’s attitude--Mr. Jennings’ account--Lord Randolph withdraws--Disappointment of Birmin...

IRELAND UNDER STORM PAGE Outbreak of the storm--The Parnell movement--Irish speeches--The Compensation for Disturbance Bill--The winter of 1880--The Land League--The revolt of t...