DOCUMENTS ON CONSERVATIVE FOREIGN POLICY, 1852 1878
DOCUMENTS ON CONSERVATIVE FOREIGN POLICY, 1852 1878 edited by GEOFFREY HICKS, JOHN CHARMLEY, AND BENDOR GROSVENOR CAMDEN FIFTH SERIES Volume 41 FOR THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY University College London, Gower Street, London WC1 6BT 2012
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CONTENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi viii INTRODUCTION 1 EDITORIAL NOTE 33 TIMELINE 35 CONSERVATIVE CABINETS, 1852 80 37 LIST OF AMBASSADORS 41 THE FIRST DERBY GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY DECEMBER 1852 47 THE SECOND DERBY GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 1858 JUNE 1859 95 THE THIRD DERBY AND FIRST DISRAELI GOVERNMENTS, JUNE 1866 DECEMBER 1868 161 THE SECOND DISRAELI GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 1874 MARCH 1878 207 BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX 371 INDEX 381
ABBREVIATIONS This list provides abbreviations that are used for all printed sources and archival collections to which frequent reference is made. BDL Cairns Papers Carnarvon Papers Cecil Cowley MSS Cranbrook Papers Cross Papers DD DDCP Dep. Hughenden DGH DP M.G. Wiebe, J.B. Conacher, J. Matthews, and M.S. Millar (eds), Benjamin Disraeli Letters, vol.v (Toronto, 1993) M.G. Wiebe, M.S. Millar, and A.P. Robson (eds), Benjamin Disraeli Letters,vol.VI(Toronto,1997) Papers of the first Earl Cairns, The National Archives, Kew Papers of the fourth Earl of Carnarvon, British Library Lady Gwendolen Cecil, Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, 4 vols (London, 1921 1932); particular reference is made to vol. II (London, 1921) Papers of the first Earl Cowley, The National Archives, Kew Papers of G. Gathorne Hardy, first Earl of Cranbrook, Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich; also a smaller deposit at the British Library Papers of R.A. Cross, first Viscount Cross, British Library J.R. Vincent (ed.), A Selection from the Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826 93) between September 1869 and March 1878 (London, 1994) J.R. Vincent (ed.), Disraeli, Derby and the Conservative Party: Journals and Memoirs of Edward Henry, Lord Stanley, 1849 1869 (Hassocks, Sussex, 1978) Papers of Benjamin Disraeli, first Earl of Beaconsfield, Hughenden Deposit, Bodleian Library, Oxford N.E. Johnson (ed.), The Diary of Gathorne Hardy, Later Lord Cranbrook, 1866 1892: political selections(oxford, 1981) Papers of the fourteenth and fifteenth Earls of Derby, Liverpool City Record Office
ABBREVIATIONS vii Goodwood MSS IP LP LQV M&B Memoirs MP Parl. Deb. SP TNA Papers of the sixth Duke of Richmond, West Sussex Record Office, Chichester Papers of Sir Stafford Northcote, first Earl of Iddesleigh, British Library Papers of A.H. Layard, British Library A.C. Benson and Viscount Esher (eds), The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1837 1861 (first series), 3 vols (London, 1907) G.E. Buckle (ed.), The Letters of Queen Victoria, Second Series, 2 vols (London, 1926) W.F. Monypenny and G.E. Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, 6 vols (London, 1910 1920) Earl of Malmesbury, Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, 2 vols (London, 1884) Papers of the third Earl of Malmesbury, Hampshire Record Office, Winchester Hansard s Parliamentary Debates, 3rd Series Papers of the third Marquis of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire The National Archives, Kew, London
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This volume was originally conceived in a research seminar at the University of East Anglia nearly a decade ago and has taken some years to produce. In the process of collating and editing the material we have accumulated a number of debts. I am very grateful for a British Academy Small Research Grant, without which it would have been impossible to have carried out much of the collation and checking of material. The Royal Historical Society patiently awaited the manuscript, while its Literary Director, Arthur Burns, was understanding and extremely helpful in his advice. A number of archivists and librarians across the country assisted us in the research, but particular thanks are due to Paul Webster at Liverpool Record Office for his help in the summer of 2011. We are grateful to Daniel Pearce, Gwenda Edwards, and Paul Gibb of Cambridge University Press for their hard work on the volume, to our copy-editor, Hester Higton, who has been eagle-eyed, helping us to avoid a number of pitfalls, and to Meg Davies for her skilful work on the index. Our thanks to Roy Bridge and Thomas Otte for helping us track down Count Montgelas, to Angus Hawkins for advice about the fourteenth Earl of Derby s handwriting, to Jennifer Davey for taking time out from her own research to check references and for advice regarding Lady Derby, and to Laurence Guymer for his assistance with the Danubian Principalities. We would like to thank the Marquess of Salisbury, the Earl of Malmesbury, the British Library, The National Archives, and Hampshire Record Office for kindly permitting us to use primary material. We are grateful to the Earl of Derby for depositing the Derby Papers at Liverpool Record Office, and to the National Trust for its deposit of the Hughenden Papers at the Bodleian Library. If we have inadvertently failed to acknowledge anyone s copyright, we would be grateful if they would contact us at the publishers so that any oversight can be corrected. Finally, I must express my gratitude to my fellow-editors, John Charmley and Bendor Grosvenor, who have been unfailingly supportive, assisting with all kinds of obscure questions and tracking down elusive information. Bendor Grosvenor s work gathering material for Chapter Four, in particular, was invaluable. This volume is the joint result of our labours, and we hope others find the material as interesting as we do. Geoffrey Hicks June 2012