Titlebook: Sir James Graham; J. T. Ward Book 1967 J. T. Ward 1967 Anglican Church.Conservative Party.England.Political Reform.British Politics

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A Condition of England Minister, had faced the extra labour of finding a new seat. Since 1839 he had considered and rejected such ‘proprietary boroughs’ as Ripon, Thirsk and Woodstock. Eventually, Robert Williams gave up his seat and influence at Dorchester to Graham, who canvassed the entire electorate in June and was returned un

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The Policy-Maker,mmanded (sometimes grudging) respect. Gladstone recorded half a century later that Graham ‘knew more of economic and trade matters … than the rest of the cabinet of 1841 all put together’.. But most important was his closeness to Peel; their official ‘intercourse … was the most frequent and the most

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tolerance

The Elder Statesman,storation of two-party domination — remained unchanged. Though the historic parties had never been tightly organised, since 1846 their place had been taken by more fluid alliances in which personalities were all- important. The result was weak Governments resting on transient ‘arrangements’; party d

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Finale, it provided an impetus to Radical attacks on the ‘Establishment’. Dr. W. H. Russell’s horrifying reports on military sufferings in . provoked condemnation of upper-class staff officers’ ‘incompetence, lethargy, aristocratic hauteur, official indifference, favour, routine, perverseness and stupidity

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Finale,of triumphs. Palmerston, cynical and conservative in domestic affairs but still lively and popular at 72, seemed the man to win the war; and in the peace his magic appeal gave him a dominating position, which successive combinations of opponents failed to weaken.

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The Political Reformer, at a bitter by-election, defeating Musgrave by 468 votes to 382. This contest was very expensive: James claimed that it had cost him £13,000, while Musgrave was supposed to have spent £23,000. Tories complained of Whig intimidation, and Whigs alleged that Tory magistrates had attempted to influence

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The Move to Conservatism,g offender’. Graham’s defeat would give the Whigs ‘extreme satisfaction, for they hate him rancorously’, wrote Greville, who could understand their feelings about ‘political conduct … neither creditable nor consistent’. Durham claimed to have extremist letters from Graham over the Reform Bill; yet n

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The Peelite,nsort persuaded him and Lincoln to serve on a new council for the Duchy of Lancaster, there was ‘a great uproar’ among men suspecting a coalition with Russell. Graham explained his feelings while dining with Gladstone.