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)

9781108030151, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 July 2011

460 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 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 5 begins with the election of 1841, and includes war in Afghanistan and continuing political trouble in Ireland. The volume continues to the end of 1846, and includes the fall of Sir Robert Peel over the Corn Law Bill.

11. Dissolution of Parliament discussed by Ministers
12. Debate on the Address in the Lords
13. Anecdotes about the Exchequer Bill Forgery
14. Visit to Broadlands
15. The Duke of Wellington on the Afghan War
16. Results of this Tour
17. Opening of Parliament
18. The policy of England to Ireland
19. Death of Earl Spencer
20. Sir Robert Peel returns to office
21. Signs of the weakness of government
22. Fall of Sir Robert Peel.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]