: Lord Randolph Churchill by Churchill Winston - Churchill Randolph Henry Spencer Lord 1849-1895

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THE FIRST VOLUME

EARLY YEARS

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Blenheim--Woodstock--Birth and parentage--Childhood--Cheam--Eton--The family borough--Merton--The Blenheim harriers--Life at Oxford--Cowes 1873--Miss Jerome--The Woodstock election--Marriage.....1

MEMBER FOR WOODSTOCK

The Parliament of 1874--A maiden speech--A social quarrel--Ireland--At the Little Lodge--FitzGibbon and Howth--The Historical Society--Irish politics--Butt and Parnell--The beginnings of obstruction--An unguarded speech--Irish education--The Eastern question--Correspondence with Sir Charles Dilke--The County Government Bill--The Irish Famine Fund--Ministerial embarrassments--Lord Beaconsfield's letter to the Duke of Marlborough--The General Election of 1880--Mr. Gladstone's triumph.....58

THE FOURTH PARTY

Position of parties--Tory depression--Bradlaugh--The origin of the Fourth Party--The four friends--The Employers' Liability Bill--Fourth Party tactics--Differences with leaders--Sir Stafford Northcote--Activities of the Fourth Party--The Fourth Party and Lord Beaconsfield--Lord Salisbury at Woodstock--Correspondence with Wolff--Joyous days.....119

IRELAND UNDER STORM PAGE Outbreak of the storm--The Parnell movement--Irish speeches--The Compensation for Disturbance Bill--The winter of 1880--The Land League--The revolt of the Boers--Coercion--Mr. Forster's misfortunes--The Kilmainham Treaty--The Closure--Lord Beaconsfield gone.....172

ELIJAH'S MANTLE

The war in Egypt--The Conservative leaders--Minor tactics in the House of Commons--Correspondence with Sir Stafford Northcote--The Beaconsfield statue--Lord Randolph's letter to the Times--Party displeasure--Elijah's mantle--The Affirmation Bill--The Primrose League--An Ishmaelite at bay--His father's death--An interlude.....224

TORY DEMOCRACY

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