THE QUEEN’S PRIME MINISTERS,
Reading edition
A SERIES OF POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES
EDITED BY STUART J. REID,
AUTHOR OF ‘THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SYDNEY SMITH.’
The Volumes will contain Portraits, and will be published at periodical intervals.
THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, K.G. By J. A. Froude, D.C.L.
VISCOUNT MELBOURNE. By Henry Dunckley, LL.D. (‘Verax.’)
SIR ROBERT PEEL. By Justin McCarthy, M.P.
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. By the Marquis of Lorne, K.T.
EARL RUSSELL. By Stuart J. Reid.
THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. By G. W. E. Russell.
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. By Sir Arthur Gordon, G.C.M.G. &c.
THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY. By H. D. Traill, D.C.L.
THE EARL OF DERBY. By George Saintsbury.
London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, Limited, St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria
EDITED BY STUART J. REID
LORD BEACONSFIELD
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LORD BEACONSFIELD
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He was a man, take him for all in all, We shall not look upon his like again
Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2
SECOND EDITION
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