Memorials of Brooks's, from the Foundation of the Club 1764 to the Close of the Nineteenth CenturyBallantyne, 1907 - 294 pages |
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1st Bart 2nd Bart 3rd Bart 4th Bart Albemarle ARTHUR borough Bouverie Brooks's MEMBER Burghs Byng Capt Cavendish Chandos Leigh Charles Chas Club Coke Colonel Cork Cotes Dacre DATE OF ELECTION Denison Derby Devonshire Divn Duke of Norfolk Dundas Durham E. J. Stanley Earl Granville Earl of Bessborough Edward Ellice Enfield Esqre Ferguson Lord Foley Foljambe Fortescue FRANCIS FREDERICK Genl GEORGE Governor Grey Guards Hall Hanbury Hartington HENRY Honble Ireland JAMES July June Lord Althorp Lord Bessborough Lord Cowper Lord Duncannon Lord Ebrington Lord Essex Lord Fitzwilliam Lord Gosford Lord Holland Lord John Lord Lansdowne Lord Ld Lord Lord Lord Sefton Lord Strafford Lord Tavistock M.P. Lord Marquis of Lans members of Brooks's Monson Morpeth Mostyn Ponsonby Present members PROPOSER AND SECONDER ROBERT Robt Ronald Ferguson Russell Secy shire Sir John Smith Spencer Stephenson Sudeley THOMAS Viscount WILLIAM Zetland
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Page xviii - He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.
Page 248 - Registrar in Chancery at Barbadoes, which he never visited ; and Surveyor of the Meltings and Clerk of the Irons in the Mint, where he showed himself once a week in order to eat a dinner which he ordered, but for which the nation paid.
Page xviii - ... to his great and masterly understanding, he had joined the greatest possible degree of that natural moderation, which is the best corrective of power; that he was of the most artless, candid, open, and benevolent disposition ; disinterested in the extreme ; of a temper mild and placable even to a fault ; without one drop of gall in his whole constitution.
Page 248 - If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up ; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he would like to see me.
Page 257 - Whig saints. Who, it was asked, could save the situation ? One man only, Lord Granville, was the response. Would he do it, and if so how could it be done ? Another election was coming round, fraught with a certain renewal of hostilities, and after that the deluge. The fatal day soon arrived. The room was crowded. Lord Granville was observed moving uneasily about. ' Do you think they will stand it ? ' he asked of a friend. ' They may stand it from you, but from nobody else,
Page 251 - Company in the Poultry, where the Prime Minister was engaged to dine. Great crowds had been assembled in Berkeley Square from an early hour in the morning, and an immense concourse of people joined the procession after it left Lord Chatham's house, marching through the City amidst the loudest acclamations and shouts of welcome. At Grocers...
Page 248 - Holland was on his death-bed, he was told that Selwyn, who had long lived on terms of the closest intimacy with him, had called to inquire after his health. " The next time Mr. Selwyn calls," he said, " show him up : — if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he will be glad to see me.
Page 257 - ... different connection — which he believed all present in their hearts really shared, that there should at least be one place left in London where a truce might be allowed to the divisions and animosities of mankind...
Page 256 - Even the sacred precincts of Brooks's were stirred by the demon of discord. A member of Mr. Gladstone's late Cabinet, who, it was declared, had many years before been himself ' pilled ' when a candidate, was declared to have spoken contemptuously of the Liberal Unionists as he descended the stairs of the Club, where he had been dining as a guest. The irate Liberal Unionists immediately discovered an easy way of revenge. The son of the ex-Minister came up, it so happened, for election almost immediately...
Page 250 - Among these, two held him in peculiar dislike : I mean George Selwyn, and the late Earl of Besborough. Conscious that every exertion would be made to ensure Sheridan's success, they agreed not to absent themselves during the time allotted by the regulations of the club for ballots ; and as one black ball sufficed to extinguish the hopes of a candidate, they repeatedly prevented his election. In order to remove so serious an impediment, Sheridan's friends had recourse to artifice. Having fixed on...