Lord John Russell

Front matter

Reading edition

Reproduced by permission from an unpublished picture by G. F. Watts, R. A. in the possession of the Dowager Countess Russell at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Photogravure by Annan & Swan.

EDITED BY STUART J. REID

LORD JOHN RUSSELL

THE QUEEN’S PRIME MINISTERS

A SERIES OF POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES.

EDITED BY

STUART J. REID

AUTHOR OF ‘THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SYDNEY SMITH.’

The volumes contain Photogravure Portraits, also copies of Autographs.

I. THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, K.G. By J. A. Froude, D.C.L. (Seventh Edition.)

II. VISCOUNT MELBOURNE. By Henry Dunckley, LL.D. (‘Verax.’)

III. SIR ROBERT PEEL. By Justin McCarthy, M.P.

IV. THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. By G. W. E. Russell. (Twelfth Thousand.)

V. THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY. By H. D. Traill, D.C.L. (Second Edition.)

VI. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. By the Marquis of Lorne. (Second Edition.)

VII. THE EARL OF DERBY. By George Saintsbury.

VIII. THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. By Lord Stanmore.

IX. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. By Stuart J. Reid.

^*_*^* A Limited Library Edition of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES, each numbered, printed on hand-made paper, parchment binding, gilt top, with facsimile reproductions, in some cases of characteristic notes of Speeches and Letters, which are not included in the ordinary edition, and some additional Portraits. Price for the Complete Set of Nine Volumes, Four Guineas net. No Volumes of this Edition sold separately.

London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY, Limited, St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL

STUART J. REID

I have looked to the happiness of my countrymen as the object to which my efforts ought to be directed

Recollections and Suggestions

LONDON

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY LIMITED St. Dunstan’s House FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C. 1895

TO THE LADY MARY AGATHA RUSSELL THIS RECORD OF HER FATHER’S CAREER IS WITH TRUE REGARD DEDICATED