Dilke
A Victorian Tragedy
1st Edition
Published on 28. September 2011
538 pages
978-1-4482-0181-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-0181-5 (9781448201815)
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Person
Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Roy Jenkins (1920- 2003) 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 death. 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 has been from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George.
Content
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
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
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