The Greville Memoirs
A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV, King William IV and Queen Victoria

These fascinating and revealing political and social diaries cover English history from the Regency to the Crimean War.

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (Author), Henry Reeve (Edited by)

9781108030120, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 July 2011

408 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794–1865) was one of the most important English political and social diarists. Clerk to the Privy Council for over forty years, he mixed with all the great political names of the day, including Wellington, Melbourne, Palmerston and Peel. Greville was fascinated by people, and a great collector of information, believing that 'there is always something to be learned from everybody if you touch them on the points they know'. Greville always intended his diaries to be published after his death. They appeared in eight volumes between 1874 and 1887, and form an important historical source for the first half of the nineteenth century. Volume 2 begins with the funeral of George IV, and concentrates largely on the disputes surrounding the passing of the Reform Bill. It also includes debates on the state of Ireland in the 1830s.

11. Accession of William IV
12. The Belgian revolution
13. A proclamation against rioters
14. Introduction of the Reform Bill
15. Preparations for the Coronation
16. Whig and Tory meetings on Reform
17. Measures for carrying the second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords
18. Debate in the House of Lords
19. Foreign difficulties
20. Appointment of Sir Stratford Canning to the Embassy to Russia.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]