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)

9781108030137, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 July 2011

434 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.55 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 3 covers part of William IV's reign, difficulties over the Irish Church Bill, and worsening international relations. Domestic politics were unsettled, with four prime ministers in 1834 as the reformed parliament had trouble forming a government.

21. Dinner at Greenwich
22. The Speaker a Knight of the Bath
23. Spain
24. Taylor's 'Philip von Artevelde'
25. Fall of Lord Melbourne's government
26. Sir R. Peel arrives
27. The Speakership
28. Lord Grey and Sir James Graham express Conservative views
29. Resistance of the Lords
30. Emperor Nicholas's speech at Warsaw
31. Moore and O'Connell
32. Crisis in the City.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]