The life of Henry Labouchere

The Huguenots of Orthez--Youth of Pierre-César--Exile--The Dutch counting-house--A double ruff and a bid for a bride--Napoleon and peace--Fouché--The French agent---Ouvrard--The...

Birth of Henry Labouchere--Early education--His first _mot_--Eton days--The young pugilist--The toper--Views on fagging--Trinity College, Cambridge--Insubordination--Suspension-...

Travels in Mexico--In love--The Chippeway Indians--In New York--His American sympathies--His views on American education--On American diplomats--On American girls--Becomes attac...

Why men enter Parliament--New Windsor--His agreement with Sir Henry Hoare--Imprudent choice of agents--Election--Is unseated on petition--Repartee before Special Commission--His...

His connection with the _Daily News_--He buys a share--Manager of the Queen's Theatre--_Time and the Hour_--_Dearer than Life_--Contretemps--Financial loss--Poor opinion of arti...

He replaces Mr. Crawford as correspondent--Mrs. Crawford's impressions of him--Chaos at the Post Office--Immediate events leading up to the siege--His account of how the news of...

The General Election of 1880--The "Radical" colleague--A faithful constituency--Mr. Bradlaugh and the oath--A House divided against itself--Labouchere's views on religion--His s...

Ireland in 1880--The Land League--Outrages--Lord Cowper and Mr. Forster demand suppression of Habeas Corpus--Mr. Gladstone's hesitation--He yields under threat of Lord Cowper's...

Mr. Gladstone and Egypt--A legacy from Disraeli--Cyprus and the Berlin Congress--The "Comedy of the Liars"--The Anglo-French Condominium--Ismail--Nubar and Sir Rivers Wilson--Si...

Labouchere's political attitude--His faith in Chamberlain--Despair at Chamberlain's secession--His article in the _Fortnightly_, 1884--The Radical creed--The House of Lords and...

Sir Henry Lucy on Labouchere--"The friendly broker"--Lord Salisbury's First Administration--Irish and Tories--Labouchere, Healy, and Chamberlain--The General Election--The Midlo...

Lord Salisbury's Second Administration--The new Coercion Bill--"Parnellism and Crime"--The facsimile letter--Mr. Healy on the condition of Ireland--Radical demonstration in Hyde...

Lord Russell's cross-examination of Pigott--The disappearance of Pigott--His confession to Mr. Labouchere--Mr. Lewis returns the confession--The Commission hears from Pigott--He...

Speeches on the Triple Alliance--He is not in the Cabinet--Queen Victoria's objection to the editor of _Truth_--Mr. Gladstone's correspondence with Mr. Labouchere--The indignati...

Some forty miles south of Bayonne, on the right bank of the Gave, lies the little town of Orthez, the ancient capital of Béarn. Famous for the obstinacy of its resistance to the...

John Peter Labouchere,[1] the younger son of Pierre-César Labouchère, was a partner in the firm of Hope at Amsterdam, and, later, a partner in the bank of Williams, Deacon, Thor...

Whether the Mentor resigned his job in despair about the time his pupil was making prudent resolutions in the seclusion of the little inn at Quotla di Amalpas, or whether it was...

Being asked on some occasion, "Why do men enter Parliament?" Mr. Labouchere replied: "Some of them enter Parliament because they have been local Bulls of Bashan, and consider th...

After he had been unseated for Windsor, Mr. Labouchere went abroad for some months, most of which time he spent at Nice. He also went to Florence, and was at Homburg, in 1868, j...

Mr. Labouchere was a famous raconteur and of the reminiscences he loved to recount there was no more riveting a series than the one relating his experiences as a journalist duri...

At the general election of 1880, Mr. Labouchere found in the electors of Northampton a constituency which was to remain faithful to him throughout his political career. He was d...

When Lord Cowper, the Irish Viceroy, under the influence of the Chief Secretary, Mr. Forster, represented to Mr. Gladstone in the early autumn of 1880 the necessity of coercive...

Lord Morley has commented on the irony of fate which imposed on Mr. Gladstone the unwelcome task of Egyptian occupation. "It was one of the ironies," he says, "in which every ac...

Before dealing further with the part played by Labouchere in Irish legislation, it will be necessary to consider his view of English politics as a whole. He had not at first bee...

Mr. Labouchere was not only a zealous friend and advocate of the Irish members in Parliament, but a variety of circumstances conspired with his own aptitudes to constitute him a...

MY DEAR CHAMBERLAIN,--No, I do not think that he (Mr. Gladstone) is hedging; from his personal standpoint, he knows that his only chance of coming in is to get over the Irish, a...

When Mr. Gladstone's Government was defeated on June 9 by 341 votes to 311, the Prime Minister immediately dissolved Parliament, and the General Election was over before the end...

Sir Charles Russell's cross-examination of Pigott on the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth days of the Commission's sittings is generally considered to be one of the finest things of...

There is no doubt about the fact that Mr. Labouchere was always at his best when he was in Opposition. This characteristic was not peculiar to him, but was shared by Sir William...

On Sunday, December 29, 1895, an armed force commanded by Dr. Jameson and Captain Willoughby invaded the territory of the Republic of the Transvaal. The object of the Jameson Ra...

We have seen the depth and intensity of Labouchere's political views. Conservatism in its Tory or Whig form he hated and relentlessly fought. On the other hand, it is not to be...

trade instead of investing his money in something that brings him in four per cent. Mr. Hyndman talked of the gambling interests of the capitalists. Why, that is all for your be...

Mr. Labouchere went into newspaper work with all the best qualifications that a journalist can have, and with many that no other journalist has ever had a chance of possessing....

Upon only one occasion in his life could a charge of Jingoism have been brought against Mr. Labouchere. The last long speech he made in the House of Commons was against the seco...