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Winston Churchill. Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill
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Deed of Trust Regulating the Papers of the late Lord Randolph Churchill
AUTHOR’S PREFACE
CONTENTS. OF. THE FIRST VOLUME
ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE FIRST VOLUME
CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER II. MEMBER FOR WOODSTOCK
CHAPTER III. THE FOURTH PARTY
CHAPTER IV. IRELAND UNDER STORM
CHAPTER V. ELIJAH’S MANTLE
CHAPTER VI. TORY DEMOCRACY
CHAPTER VII. THE PARTY MACHINE
CHAPTER VIII. THE REFORM BILL
CHAPTER IX. THE FALL OF THE GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER X. THE ‘MINISTRY OF CARETAKERS’
CHAPTER XI. AT THE INDIA OFFICE
APPENDICES. I. THREE ELECTION ADDRESSES. 1874. To the Electors of Woodstock
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III. REFORM BILL, 1884
IV. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL’S LETTERS FROM INDIA
CONTENTS. OF. THE SECOND VOLUME
ILLUSTRATIONS. TO. THE SECOND VOLUME
CHAPTER XII. THE TWENTY-SIXTH OF JANUARY
CHAPTER XIII. HOME RULE
CHAPTER XIV. LEADER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
CHAPTER XV. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
CHAPTER XVI. RESIGNATION
CHAPTER XVII. THE TURN OF THE TIDE
CHAPTER XVIII. ECONOMY
CHAPTER XIX. THE NATIONAL PARTY
CHAPTER XX. CROSS CURRENTS
CHAPTER XXI. THE PARNELL COMMISSION
CHAPTER XXII. OPPOSITION ONCE MORE
APPENDICES. V. TWO ELECTION ADDRESSES
VI. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE
VII. POLITICAL LETTERS OF LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
VIII. MR. JENNINGS’ ACCOUNT OF HIS QUARREL WITH LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
IX. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL’S MEMORANDUM ON ARMY AND NAVY ADMINISTRATION
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Winston Churchill
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It is not worth while to dwell on college scrapes, though of these some, at any rate, have been recorded. Thus we learn that Lord Randolph Churchill was fined ten shillings for the offence of smoking in his cap and gown; that he broke the windows of the Randolph hotel; that he was taken into custody by the police, with the rest of a noisy supper party, and charged with being drunk; that, infuriated by such an accusation, which was not sustained in court, he brought an action for perjury against the police witness; that the college authorities appealed to the Duke of Marlborough to stop the legal proceedings; that the Duke of Marlborough replied that, on the contrary, they had his entire concurrence; that learned counsel were brought by both parties from London; but that in the end the summons was dismissed and the officer exonerated of any wilful intention to deceive. We are also told that one day he was sent for by the Warden to be rebuked for some delinquency. It was winter, and the interview began with the Warden standing before the fireplace and the undergraduate in the middle of the room. By the time the next culprit arrived Lord Randolph was explaining his conduct with his back to the fire and the Warden was a somewhat embarrassed listener in a chilly corner. Such are the tales.
Until he was in his twentieth year Lord Randolph’s studies seem to have been fitful. He had, indeed, enjoyed the ordinary education of an English gentleman. He had consumed a vast number of hours at Eton and elsewhere in making those intricate combinations of Latin words and syllables which are perhaps as useful or as harmless a form of mental training as youth can receive. He had—in addition to any acquaintance with classical learning which these exercises may be supposed to impart, and the wide but discursive reading of history and poetry that his tastes had prompted—a peculiar, exact, and intimate knowledge (made effective by an exceptional memory) of the Bible, Gibbon, and ‘Jorrocks.’ From these books—not so ill-assorted as they sound—he could recite in an extraordinary manner whole pages at a time. In the strong, simple, homely words and phrases, sonorous sentences, and veins of rough spontaneous mirth which characterise the style and language of his rhetoric and writings, the influence of these three varied fountains, quaintly, yet not incongruously, intermingled, can be plainly seen.
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