By Dr E David Steele, David Steele

Lord Salisbury is a crucial and masses wanted biography of 1 of the main influential top Ministers of the Victorian Age. This booklet offers an interpretation of the Marquess of Salisbury's personality and concepts which formed English politics

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The abuse of power, wrong in itself, must erode the “moral influence” that counted for much in the informal empire. With Cobden, he protested at the blockade of Rio de Janeiro to resolve a dispute with Brazil which, on the face of it, might have been settled otherwise. Layard, made a good case, and Cobden was unwilling to vote against the government. In countries where the rule of law was imperfectly understood, the gunboat was a requisite of diplomacy, one that Cecil, when at the Foreign Office himself, used skilfully.

Understandably, the marquess could not believe, as late as 1858, in his son’s ability to cut “some figure in the political world”. On the formation of a Tory administration that year, the first since Robert entered the Commons, there was no under-secretaryship for him. Again a cabinet minister, and mindful of the demands of a second family on his fortune, Salisbury proposed to give his son one of the well paid clerkships of the Privy Council in his gift as lord president. In the event, the cabinet, keen to impress the electorate with its zeal for economy, decided to abolish the vacant post.

He was thought to have displayed considerable skill in skirting round the danger. Seizure of the aggressor’s shipping, he suggested, would have been an appropriate measure, falling short of open war. Long afterwards, in a similar situation, he remembered that Palmerston’s refusal to fight had been understood and rewarded by the voters, who increased his party’s majority handsomely at the 1865 election. At the time, he was deeply ashamed of his countrymen. He ridiculed them savagely in the Quarterly Review under cover of a supposed anonymity.

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