A SERIES OF POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES

EDITED BY
STUART J. REID,

AUTHOR OF ‘THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SYDNEY SMITH.’

The Volumes will contain Portraits, and will be published at periodical intervals.

• THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, K.G. By J. A. Froude, D.C.L.
• VISCOUNT MELBOURNE. By Henry Dunckley, LL.D. (‘Verax.’)
• SIR ROBERT PEEL. By Justin McCarthy, M.P.
• VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. By the Marquis of Lorne, K.T.
• EARL RUSSELL. By Stuart J. Reid.
• THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. By G. W. E. Russell.
• THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. By Sir Arthur Gordon, G.C.M.G. &c.
• THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY. By H. D. Traill, D.C.L.
• THE EARL OF DERBY. By George Saintsbury.

London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, Limited,
St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.

The Prime Ministers of
Queen Victoria

EDITED BY
STUART J. REID

LORD BEACONSFIELD

PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON

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LORD BEACONSFIELD

BY J. A. FROUDE

SECOND EDITION

LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON
LIMITED
St. Dunstan’s House
FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1890

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