Lord Grey, 1764-1845 - Hardcover

Smith, E. A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019820163X ISBN 13: 9780198201632

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1990

Synopsis

This is the only comprehensive and authoritative modern biography of Charles, second Earl Grey, a leading figure in the Whig party from the 1780s to the 1830s, and the Prime Minister who passed the Great Reform Act of 1832. Smith here portrays Grey as chiefly responsible for guiding the country through a period of threatened revolution and maintaining the continuity of its political institutions. Drawing on an extensive range of historical sources, some of them previously unpublished, this study re-evaluates Grey's career and achievements in light of modern scholarship, and provides a unique insight into his complex and troubled personality.

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Review

'Smith has written an extraordinary account of Grey's political life and the principles for which he stood.' Nancy D. LoPatin, University of Wisconsin, Victorian Studies 'in E.A. Smith's new study he is more accurately presented as a profoundly conservative figure who shared much of Wellington's outlook.' Neville Thompson, Newsletter of the Victorian Studies, Association of Ontario, No. 48, Fall 1991 'Dr Smith's excellent biography is much to be welcomed and will be widely-read.' A.j. Heesom, Durham University Journal `careful and scholarly ... Dr Smith offers a lifetime's reflection on a figure of central importance to the early nineteenth century and merits the gratitude of scholars for his contribution.' History 'Dr Smith does not deal in haloes. In this fine book he has dispersed the haze and added greatly to our knowledge.' London Review of Books `In this fine book he has dispersed the haze and added greatly to our knowledge.' London Review of Books 'scholarly biography, written with much care' Jonathan Clark, The Times 'a well written and sensitive life of a remarkable man' Robert Blake, The Spectator 'excellent and scholarly biography' Times Higher Education Supplement 'lucid and scholarly' Observer `This new life of Grey is a most welcome addition to nineteenth-century historiography and will become for the foreseeable future the standard authority on a statesman who deservedly ranks as one of the architects of Victorian Britain.' Parliamentary History `There has been no greater or more obvious gap in the historiography of Georgian politics. That that gap has now been filled by a sober and scholarly book is something for which thanks should be offered. It will be the researcher's reference point for a generation.' EHR Oct 1993

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019820163X
• ISBN 13: 9780198201632
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360