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The Reform Minister

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On assuming office Graham faced considerable hostility. Greville, who had briefly known him at Oxford, thought his appointment ‘the most monstrous of all’, bitterly recalling that

thinking he could do better [Graham] cut me, as he had done others before … I take vanity and self-sufficiency to be the prominent features of his character … I think he will fail.

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  1. Greville, op. cit., ii. 90–91; Bamford and Wellington, op. cit. ii. 417; Graham to Rooke, 15 Oct. 1830; Sir T. Wemyss Reid, The Life, Letters and Friendships of R. M. Milnes (1890), i. 95.

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  2. Spencer Walpole, The Life of Lord John Russell (1889), i. 165

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  3. Lord Broughton, Recollections of a Long Life (1910), iv. 178

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  4. D. G. Southgate, The Passing of the Whigs, 1832–1886 (1962), 12–13

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  5. Arthur Aspinall, Brougham and the Whig Party (1939), 189; Brougham, op. cit., iii. 68, 93.

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  6. Graham to Grey, 21, Western to Graham, 26 Dec. 1830; Earl Grey (ed.), Correspondence of William IV and Earl Grey (2 vols., 1867), passim; Graham to Grey, 18 Jan. 1831.

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  7. See Butler, op. cit., 203 et seq.; Parker, op. cit., i. 105 et seq.; Grey, op. cit., i. 225 et seq.; Anglesey to Graham, 24 April 1831; Michael Joyce, My Friend H (1948), 216.

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  8. Graham to Grey, 24 Jan. 1831; Sir W. L. Clowes, The Royal Navy (1903), vi. 190–1.

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  9. See Erickson, op. cit., 95 et seq.; C. J. Bartlett, Great Britain and Sea Power 1815–1853 (Oxford, 1963), 9 et seq.; Parker, op. cit., ch. 7; Graham to Grey, 27 July, 28 Aug., 1 Sept., Graham to Stanley, 11 June 1831; Graham to Grey, 20 Sept., Grey to Graham, 21, 22 Sept., Graham to Grey, 26, 27 Sept., Grey to Graham, 28, 30 Sept., 4 Oct., Graham to Stanley, 5, 18 Nov., to Grey, 15 Nov. 1832 (most of these letters are partly quoted by Parker); Greville, op. cit., ii. 364.

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Ward, J.T. (1967). The Reform Minister. In: Sir James Graham. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00077-7_5

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