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)

9781108030168, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 July 2011

516 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.65 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 6 covers the period December 1846 to September 1852. It includes the Irish famine, revolutions in Europe and Chartist demonstrations at home. It ends with anti-Catholic feelings and the death of the Duke of Wellington.

23. Death of Mr. Thomas Greville
24. Return from Paris
25. Panic in the money market
26. The Revolution in France
27. Anarchy in France
28. Louis Blanc on France
29. Difficult position of the government
30. The case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter
31. Accident to Sir Robert Peel
32. Difficulties ahead
33. Disraeli's Life of Lord George Bentinck
34. The trial of strength
Appendices.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]