By Michael Bentley
Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) is now a topic of severe old consciousness. yet whereas different students have selected to provide biographies of him, this crucial and available new research strikes clear of the normal "life" and reconstructs the thought-world of late-Victorian Conservatives for the 1st time. In doing so it presents a brand new situation in which Victorian politics and Salisbury himself might be evaluated. The booklet will for this reason be crucial studying for an individual drawn to British political rules.
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7. The issues of church rates and tithe reappear in chapter 8 of this study. Hansard, 19 Jan. 1897, xlv, col. 34. Salisbury to Beach, 5 Aug. 1897, St Aldwyn MSS PCC/69/146 ±7. 61 On every front, the point lay in making the membrane between past and present pervasive and porous. Not so the future. Salisbury derided those who thought that they could see ahead beyond the tri¯ing predictability of a parliamentary schedule. When they did so, trouble resulted in the form, normally, of `progress', which he took to represent an odious capitulation to forces that should be controlled on the part of people who wanted to travel somewhere quickly without quite knowing where.
Several parts of the message certainly had held good in the later decades of the nineteenth century. `Scotland', the image, made little ®t with Scotland the place: only a few sectors of the geography came within its de®nition. 32 They had a supposedly deviant 31 32 Quoted back at him by Salisbury in Salisbury to Cranbrook, 10 July 1886, in Cecil, vol. iii, p. 309. This point is more sensitive now than it felt in 1880 when the adjective and noun, `Scotch', were universally used by the English when describing Scottish people and culture.
116; Malmesbury to Richmond, 5 Aug. 1876, Goodwood MSS 868 b 27. Party time 25 who proved `their equals in ability and in¯uence'. `But Lord Beacons®eld has been removed at a time when he was still the foremost statesman of the Conservative party, and while he attracted the attention of the country only in a less degree than MR. '44 It did not sound a good augury for Beacons®eld's successors. Salisbury, who was one of them, nevertheless dominated the last two decades of the nineteenth century without losing his own conception of his place in a longer story.