Aberdeen, Earl of,
25 and
note Acton, Lord—
Career—
Birth,
xv; Oscott,
xvi; Munich,
xvii; visit to France,
xix; to
United States,
xx; Moscow,
xx-xxi; Aldenham,
xxii; member
for Carlow,
xxii; in Parliament,
xxv; stands for Bridgnorth,
xxvii; editorship of the
Rambler (
Home and Foreign Review),
xxvii,
xxx-xxxiii,
xxxv; at Congress of Munich,
xxxiii; marriage,
xxxv; lectures at Bridgnorth,
xxxv-xxxix,
xvi; again stands for
Bridgnorth,
xxxix; at the Œcumenical Council,
xlii-xlvii;
peerage,
xlix; honorary Doctorate of Philosophy at Munich,
l;
reply to Gladstone's "Vatican Decrees" pamphlet,
lii-liii; death
of his daughter,
lxxv,
105, and
note; residence in Germany and
the Riviera,
lix; founds
English Historical Review,
lxiv; D.LL.,
D.C.L., and All Souls Fellowship,
lxv; made lord in waiting,
lxv;
appointed Professor of Modern History at Cambridge,
lxvi,
lxix;
death,
lxxiv Characteristics—
Caution in expressing opinions,
xii,
lx,
lxxiv Conversational ability,
xii-xiv,
lxix Cosmopolitanism,
xiv,
xv,
xx,
lix Critical temperament,
xiii,
lxii Foreign languages, facility in,
xv,
xviii,
lxv Integrity of mind,
lii Irony of manner,
xiii Learning,
xi,
lxxvii; range of subjects,
xv Liberalism,
xxvi Morality, high estimate of,
xii Personal appearance,
xiii Prudence,
xxxiv Reading, fondness for,
xi,
xiv,
xxxv,
lxxiii Religious views,
xv Sociability,
xii,
lix Estimates of,
xi,
lxxi,
lxxv Affirmation as substitute for oath,
23 and
note Afghanistan,
20 note,
78,
81,
208 and
note Africanders,
see Boers
Airlie, Earl of,
17 Aldenham library,
xviii,
lv,
lxxiii Alexander,
47,
111 Alexandria,
156 Alison cited,
7 America,
see United States
Amiel,
207 Ammergau,
33,
34 Ampthill, Lord (Odo Russell),
xlvii,
195 and
note Anglo-Indians,
17 Antonelli, Cardinal,
xiv,
xlvi Appearances
v. realities,
15 Arco, Louis, Count,
172 Argyll, Duke of, incompatibility of, with Chamberlain,
13; resignation
of,
87 and
note[
119]; misunderstandings of Gladstone by,
106;
otherwise mentioned,
lx,
11,
25,
29,
30,
70,
89,
96,
108 Arnim, Count,
53,
134 Arnold, Matthew,
59,
70,
105 —— Dr.,
146 Ashburnham MSS.,
162-163 Atterbury,
52 Aumale, Duc d',
88 Austen, Jane,
83 Authorities, list of,
69
Bacon,
93 Banneville, Marquis de,
xlv Barère,
136 Barnes,
140 Battersea, Lady (Mrs. Flower),
42 and
note,
43 Baxter,
146 Beaconsfleld, Earl of (B. Disraeli)—
Bryce on,
130 Croker, views on,
201 and
note[
247]
"Endymion" criticised,
52 First speech of,
109 Gladstone's eulogy on,
lx,
99-101 Granville, Earl, dinner with,
66 Illness of,
85 Memorial to,
97 and
note[
132],
98,
107 and
note[145]
Peel attacked by,
114 note Press opinions on,
96 Supporters of,
91 Otherwise mentioned,
xxiii,
lxxvi,
11,
40 Beard's Hibbert Lectures,
173 Bedford, Duke of,
195 "Belgique et le Vatican, La,"
54 Benedictines,
137 Benjamin, J. P.,
97 and
note[
131]
Berlin, treaty of,
179 Berryer, xxiv,
47,
49 Bessborough Report,
88 Bible, Revised Version of,
120 Bisaccia,
61 Bismarck, Prince, Minghetti on,
lxiii; Gladstone contrasted with,
35;
mentioned,
13 Blachford, Lord,
4 Blennerhassett, Lady, estimate of,
44; otherwise mentioned,
17,
23,
161,
174 —— Sir Rowland, estimate of,
44; on Forster,
73; mentioned,
23 Blignieres,
191 Blondel,
146 Bluntschli,
xix Boers—
Characteristics of,
77 Peace made by Gladstone with,
81,
91 Bohme,
139 Bond,
149-150 Bonghi—essays of, on Gladstone,
4 and
notes[
5,
6]
Roman History by,
123,
174; mentioned,
80 and
note[
103]
Books, list of hundred best,
69; Acton's list of,
166-168,
176 Borromeo, St. Charles,
lxxi,
135,
186-187 Bossuet,
93,
133,
150 Boutmy,
3 Bradlaugh, Charles, re-election of, for Northampton,
126 and
note[
166];
Manning's protest against admission of,
130 note[
169]; otherwise
mentioned,
23 note,
95,
121,
151,
214 Bradley's Recollections,
166 Bramhall,
127,
133,
134 Brand, Speaker (Viscount Hampden),
73 and
note Brewer,
128-129,
149,
196 Bright, Rev. J. F., Master of University, lxiv,
160,
173 and
note[
206],
177 —— Rt. Hon. John, lx,
25,
30,
94,
156,
213 Brodrick, Hon. George,
54 and
note[
62],
177 Broglie, Duc de,
2 and
note[
2],
11,
161 Brontë, Charlotte,
83 Brougham, Lord,
47,
57 Browne, Bp., of Shrewsbury,
liv —— Bp. Harold,
70 and
note[
85]
Browning, Oscar,
166 Bryce, Rt. Hon. James, paper of, on Disraeli,
130; cited,
ix,
xiv;
quoted,
xviii-xix,
lx,
lxviii; otherwise mentioned,
84,
197 Burke, Edmund—
Electioneering speeches of,
4-5 Estimate of,
49,
56-57 Gladstone compared with,
5,
49,
57,
81 Lecky on,
152 Party policy of,
14,
49 and
note[
54]
Otherwise mentioned,
xxix,
45 Burials Bill,
33 and
note[
43]
Burnett,
47 Butler, Bp.,
xxxiv,
203 Byron,
63
Cæsar Borgia,
144 Cairns, first Earl,
90 and
note[
124],
108 Cambridge, Acton's visit to (1884),
177 note,
181,
191 "Cambridge History,"
lxx,
lxxiii,
lxxiv Cambridge University—
Acton refused admission to, as a student,
xvii,
lxvi,
104; made
D.LL. at,
lxv; appointed Professor of Modern History at,
lxvi Aldenham library presented to,
lxxiv Scholarship at, for Northumberland miners, scheme of,
192 and
note[
230]
Cannes,
lix,
33,
54,
80,
83,
160,
162,
198,
205 Canning, estimates of,
45,
47; otherwise mentioned,
46,
56,
99,
200 Capua, Archbishop of,
87 Cardwell, Lord,
xxii,
11,
54,
66,
77 Carlingford, Lord,
87 note[
120],
108,
195 Carlyle, Thomas—
Estimate of,
70-71,
82,
85,
104,
144 Froude's Life of,
151 Palgrave on,
84 Scherer on,
74 Carnarvon, Earl of,
16,
24 Carnegie, Andrew,
lxxiii Carnot, President,
136 Caron, Father,
133,
140 Casaubon,
207 Cassander,
134 Castlereagh, Visct.,
46,
99 Cavendish, Lady F.,
41,
155 —— Lord F.,
66,
154-156 Cavour,
xxv,
xxviii-xxix,
49 Cetewayo,
174 Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J., incompatibility of, with Argyll,
13;
indiscretions of,
66; policy regarding House of Lords,
102;
Döllinger's view of,
170; defection of,
214; on Gladstone's
socialism,
212; otherwise mentioned,
24,
43,
153,
164,
205,
211 Chambord, Count of,
86,
161 Channing,
146 Charles I.,
136 Chateaubriand,
78 Chatham, Lord,
45,
56,
81 Chenery,
13,
24,
34-35 Cheney,
40 Childers, Rt. Hon. H. C. E.,
114 note Chillingworth,
133,
134 Chronicle (1868),
xxxvii Church, Dean, at Munich,
170 and
note[
204]; on Liddon,
180,
192,
204;
over-estimation of,
203; otherwise mentioned,
70 Churches—
Anglican—
Distinguished men in, overmuch made of,
203 Establishment of,
182 High Church party, attitude of, towards Gladstone's alliance
with democratic nonconformity,
16 Ireland, in,
xxxix Ritualism in, Gladstone's pamphlet on,
li Thirty-Nine Articles,
127,
133 Cavour's ideal,
xxix Establishments,
xxvi,
xl; Gladstone's progress of thought
regarding,
48 and
note,
89 Roman Catholic—
Benedictines,
137 Burnings of,
141,
146 "Conflicts with Rome,"
xxxiii Conversions to—
Obstacles to,
185,
187 Protestant sanction of,
134 Identification of, with morality and religion,
xxxii Infallibility dogma,
xli,
xliii-xlviii; civil allegiance in
relation to,
xlviii,
li Inquisition,
141,
146,
185 Jansenism,
131,
140 Jesuits (
see that title)
Legate and Nuncio,
137 Legitimacy supported by,
86 Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister, attitude towards,
169 and
note Mass, the,
136 Modern thought, Encyclical letter against,
xxxiv Molinism,
131 Œcumenical Council (1869),
xli-xlix Papacy (
see also below Ultramontanism)
Creighton's work on,
lxiv,
197 and
note[
243]
Ethics of,
127 Inquisition the work of,
185 Temporal power of, xlii,
86-87 Perilous opinions enforced by,
127 Persecution in,
148 Roman Catholic—
Quietists,
139 Rosmini's attempted reform of,
171,
176,
185 Syllabus of Errors (1864),
xxxiv,
xlii,
135,
141 Thirty-Nine Articles, views on,
127 Transubstantiation,
132 Ultramontanism—
Acton's attitude towards,
xvi Immorality of,
lv,
131 Irish clergy, of,
73,
165,
170 Nature of,
185-187 Policy of (1869),
xliv "Vatican Decrees" pamphlet,
l et seq.
Vaticanism, Frère-Orban on,
54 Cicero,
88 Circourt,
40 Clare, Lord,
201 Clark, Dr. A.,
29 Clay,
49 Clifford, Bishop,
liv Club, The,
lix,
50 Cobden, Richard—
Economy urged by,
xxiv Life of,
111 and
note,
112-113 Otherwise mentioned,
19,
27 Coercion,
xxviii (