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Disraeli and Electoral Reform
In 1865 Palmerston died and Lord Russell once again became Prime Minister. He set out to reform Parliament. Firstly the Franchise and secondly the distribution of seats.
In England and Wales there were a million voters. To vote you had to be male and have property of a certain value. Therefore it was mainly a middle class vote. The distribution of votes had not changed since 1832 even though the industrial age had brought many changes and developments.
The timing was wrong. The Bill was defeated in the House and Russell resigned. Derby replaced him and Disraeli became Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Conservatives drafted their own Bill and eventually it went through. It doubled the electorate. In 1868 Derby resigned due to ill health and Disraeli became Prime Minister.
Robert Browning |
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)- Poet
- Father was a Bank of England clerk
- Admired Shelley and Elizabeth Browning whom he began writing to in 1845
- Married in 1846
- J S Mill said of him "a more intense and morbid self-consciousness than I ever knew in any sane being"
- Introduced narrative into poetry
- Influenced Rossetti
- Buried in Westminster Abbey
In 1868 flogging in the peacetime army was abolished.
VICTORIA PRIME MINISTERS (1837-1868)
- Viscount Melbourne (1837-1841)
- Sir Robert Peel (1841-1846)
- Lord John Russell ( 1846-1852)
- Earl of Derby (1852)
- Earl of Aberdeen (1852-1855)
- Viscount Palmerston (1855-1858)
- Earl of Derby (1858-1859)
- Viscount Palmerston (1859-1865)
- Earl Russell (1865-1866)
- Earl of Derby (1866-1868)
 
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| 1837 | Victoria becomes Queen
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| 1859 | Palmerston becomes Prime Minister
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| 1861 | Prince Albert dies
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| 1865 | Palmerston dies
Russell becomes Prime Minister
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| 1868 | Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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| 1870 | Franco-Prussian War
First Irish Land Act
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| 1874 | Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
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| 1877 | Victoria becomes Empress of India
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| 1880 | Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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| 1881 | Disraeli dies
Second Irish Land Act
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| 1885 | Salisbury becomes Prime Minister
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| 1887 | Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
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| 1892 | Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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| 1894 | Rosebery becomes Prime Minister
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| 1895 | Salisbury becomes Prime Minister
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| 1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
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| 1898 | Gladstone dies
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| 1899 | Second Boer War breaks out
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| 1901 | Queen Victoria dies
Edward VII becomes king
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