Roy Jenkins

Dilke (eBook, ePUB)

A Victorian Tragedy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sir Charles Dilke was born in 1843 and died in 1911. His career is one of the mysteries and tragedies of nineteenth-century history.

In the summer of 1885 he was the youngest man in the outgoing cabinet and Gladstone's most likely successor as leader of the Liberal Party. But his great expectations were shattered when in July 1885 Donald Crawford, a Liberal candidate, began divorce proceedings against his twenty-two-year-old wife, citing Dilke as co-respondent. There were two hearings, during the second of which Mrs Crawford made the most sensational allegations and in the end Dilke lost. He maintained his innocence to his dying day and despite his public disgrace there were many who believed him.

First published in 1958, Dilke is a story with a climax as exciting as it is mysterious and which bears continuing relevance to the private lives of public figures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 538
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448201815
• Artikelnr.: 38311212

Autorenporträt

Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Roy Jenkins (B: 1920) served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government and as Home Secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford following the latter's death, a position he held until his own death in 2003. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of a great age of British parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins was from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I A Determined Preparation II A Greater Britain III Member for
Chelsea IV An English Republican V The Birmingham Alliance VI The Dust
without the Palm VII A Laborious Promotion VIII A Radical amongst the Whigs
IX A Dying Government X Mr. Gladstone's Successor XI Mrs. Crawford
Intervenes XII An Inconclusive Verdict XIII The Case for Dilke XIV The Case
for Mrs. Crawford - and the Verdict XV The New Evidence XVI What was the
Truth? XVII The Long Road Back XVIII An Independent Expert XIX A Quiet End
Appendix I List of Characters concerned with the case Appendix II List of
addresses in the Case References