A prominent Conservative in Parliament, who held various high positions in the Cabinet. He bitterly opposed the leadership of the Duke of Omnium, and resigned in the hope that it would break up the Coalition.
There is hardly a pleasure in life equal to that of laying out money with a conviction that it will come back again. The conviction, alas, is so often ill founded, but the pleasure is the same.
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GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
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