Identifier: reviewofreviewsw30newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ry champion of the Radi-cal agitation of the Society of Friends of thePeople, and he vehemently denounced the pol-icy of the war with France in which his fatherwas risking his life on the field of battle. His subsequent career is written at large inthe history of England. Most of its incidentsare forgotten now. But what will never be for-gotten is the part which he played in transform-ing Britain from an aristocracy to a democracy.The great fight which began in 1797, when heintroduced the first Reform bill into the Houseof Commons, he carried to a triumphant conclu-sion in 1832, when he compelled King WilliamIV. to promise to force the Reform bill throughthe House of Lords by creating as many peersas might be needed for the purpose. THE PRESENT EARL. The son of the great earl died childless, and wassucceeded by his nephew, the present earl, in1S94. Mr. Albert • i rev went to school at Harrow,lie graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge. InL877, he married Alice, the third daughter of
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THE COUNTESS GREY.(Wife of the newly appointed governor-general of Canada.) 572 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. Mr. Slayner Holford, M.P., whose residence inPark Lane is one of the most famous palaces inLondon. It was not until the year 1880 thathe entered the House of Commons. He waselected Liberal member for South Northumber-land. The wave of Gladstonian enthusiasm wasthen at its flood. Mr. .Albert Grey was a Glad-stonian, despite the misgivings of his uncle.Mr. Gladstone failed to do many things hehoped to do, but he did succeed in carryinganother Reform bill, which entailed, among otherthings, the division of the counties into electoraldivisions. At the general election of 1885, Mr.Albeit Grey elected to stand for Tyneside, oneof the constituencies into which South North-umberland had been cut up. In the followingyear, Mr. Gladstone plunged for home rule.Mr. Grey refused to follow him, and his place inthe Liberal party and the House of Commonsknew him no more. He became a

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