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Disraeli and Gladstone
In 1868 Disraeli became Prime Minister. The contest between Disraeli for the Conservatives and Gladstone for the Liberals was to continue until 1881 when Disraeli died.
These two did more than anyone to establish the Conservative and Liberal parties which we recognize today. By the end of 1868 Gladstone had take over from Disraeli as Prime Minister.
John Ruskin |
JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900)- Art critic and champion of contemporary Victorian artists, particularly at first, Turner
- His Modern Painters in 1843, was in praise of Turner
- Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he felt naïve and ignorant of the wider world
- Although he won the Newdigate poetry prize, he was never considered a poet
- Travelled widely in Europe
- Married Effie Gray but they parted and she married the painter, Millais
- Wrote many art criticisms
- Interested in Venetian Gothic and medieval art
- Supported the Pre-Raphaelites
- Criticised James Whistler's Nocturne 1877 as "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face"
- Whistler sued for libel
- Ruskin's sense of political and social conscience dominated his later life and there was always a sense that he wanted to strip himself of all wordly possessions
In 1868 transportation of criminals ended.
DISRAELI ON GLADSTONE
"Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac, Gladstone...
an extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy, and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether preaching, praying, speechifying, or scribbling - never a gentleman!" GLADSTONE ON DISRAELI
"False!, but the man more false than his doctrine...
He demoralized public opinion, bargained with diseased appetites, stimulated passions, prejudices, and selfish desires, that they might maintain his influence ..... he weakened the Crown by approving its unconstitutional leanings, and the Constitution by offering any price for democratic popularity."
 
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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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