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Informationen zum Autor JOHN MORLEY Born on December 24, 1838, John Morley was the 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM, PC, FRS, FBA. He died on September 23, 1923, and was a British Liberal politician, author, and newspaper editor. He started out as a reporter in the North of England and then became editor of the newly liberal Pall Mall Gazette from 1880 to 1883. In 1883, he was chosen as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP). In 1886, 1892, and 1895, he was Chief Secretary for Ireland. From 1905 to 1910 and again in 1911, he was Secretary of State for India. From 1910 to 1914, he was Lord President of the Council. Morley was a well-known political analyst and wrote a biography of William Gladstone, who was his hero. His works and "reputation as the last of the great nineteenth-century Liberals" made Morley famous. He was against the Second Boer War and empire. He believed that Ireland should have Home Rule. He quit the government in August 1914 because he didn't want Britain to join the First World War as a Russian friend. Klappentext First published in 1903, this authorised biography of the Liberal Prime Minister Gladstone provides valuable insights into Victorian political life. Zusammenfassung First published in 1903, this authorised biography of four-times Liberal Prime Minister Gladstone (1809–1898) provides valuable insights into Victorian political life. Volume 1 covers Gladstone's education, his election as a Tory, his first period as Chancellor of the Exchequer and his move towards the Liberals in 1859. Inhaltsverzeichnis Book I. 1809-1831: Introductory; 1. Childhood; 2. Eton; 3. Oxford; Book II. 1832-1846: 1. Enters Parliament; 2. The new conservatism and office; 3. Progress in public life; 4. The church; 5. His first book; 6. Characteristics; 7. Close of apprenticeship; 8. Peel's government; 9. Maynooth; 10. Triumph of policy and fall of the minister; 11. The Tractarian catastrophe; Book III. 1847-1852: 1. Member for Oxford; 2. The Hawarden estate; 3. Party evolution - new colonial policy; 4. Death of Sir Robert Peel; 5. Gorham case - secession of friends; 6. Naples; 7. Religious tornado - peelite difficulties; 8. End of protection; Book IV. 1853-1859: 1. The coalition; 2. The triumph of 1853; 3. The Crimean war; 4. Oxford reform - the open Civil Service; 5. War finance - tax or loan; 6. Crisis of 1855 and break-up of the Peelites; 7. Political isolation; 8. General election - new marriage law; 9. The second Derby government; 10. The Ionian islands; 11. Junction with the Liberals; Appendix; Chronology....
