 Commonwealth, of abrogating exclusive and oppressive laws, of extending political franchises, of giving freedom to commerce, and by the progress of a policy at once sound and safe, to promote the welfare and happiness of the mass of the people, and the...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 2781876Full view - About this book
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1911 - 450 pages
...displayed by, politicians. The surprise in the new Cabinet was the appointment of Lord Randolph Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons. His courses in Parliament had been meteoric — he was without a rival among Conservative members in... | |
 | Thomas Frederick Tout - 1912 - 870 pages
...Protectionists, and Stanley, now by his father's death earl of Derby, became prime minister, with Disraeli as chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. But the Disraeli newministers were in a minority, and held office through ^l1?!51''3'' the favour of... | |
 | 1913 - 480 pages
...Lord John resigned, and Lord Derby (formerly Lord Stanley) formed an administration, with Mr Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. The new Government was favourable to protection if they could get a large enough majority. On a dissolution,... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - 1915 - 672 pages
...coalesce. For the third time an administration was formed with Lord Derby at its head and Disraeli as chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the House of Commons, which could only retain office by grace of an Opposition which was in an actual majority. Curiously... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 606 pages
...prepossession in favour of the enigmatical Member for Buckinghamshire, who in July 1866 succeeded Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons. Indeed, any prejudices which a boy of thirteen might have entertained would probably have lain in the... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1916 - 702 pages
...prepossession in favour of the enigmatical Member for Buckinghamshire, who in July 1866 succeeded Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons. Indeed, any prejudices which a boy of thirteen might have entertained would probably have lain in the... | |
 | George Peabody Gooch, John Howard Bertram Masterman - 1917 - 130 pages
...1866, a con- ; servative ministry came into office, with Lord Derby as Prime Minister, and Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. In the great struggle of this year between Austria and v Prussia, Great Britain observed strict neutrality,... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - 1917 - 370 pages
...Memoirs, i. 308.) But the King could not stand the idea of Lord John Russell's succession to Lord Althorp as Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. Lord John was as obnoxious to the King as Fox had been to his father. He hated his Liberal opinions... | |
 | Robert Sangster Rait - 1920 - 352 pages
...bad terms. William Pitt, the second son of Chatham, entered the ministry, at the age of twenty-three, as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons. The Shelburne ministry continued Fox's policy of making a separate peace with the Americans, and on... | |
 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1922 - 472 pages
...considerable party to support him, but it possessed the invaluable help of William Pitt, who now first took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. Thurlow and Grafton also remained in the Cabinet. The work before the ministers was still eminently... | |
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