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Article: Patrick Jackson. The last of the whigs: a political biography of Lord Hartington, later eighth duke of Devonshire (1833-1908).(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- September 22, 1995
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Patrick Jackson. The last of the whigs: a political biography of Lord Hartington, later eighth duke of Devonshire (1833-1908) (Associated UP, 1994), 398 pp., $47.50.
After years of underperformance, shares in Lord Hartington, the man who refused the British premiership three times, have been rising strongly of late. Much of this is due to the work of Terry Jenkins, who has pleaded vigorously for Hartington to be taken seriously as an alternative Liberal Leader to Gladstone in the 1870s and 1880s. Now, at last, a full-scale biography has appeared, the first since Bernard Holland's memorial of 1911. It is written by Patrick Jackson, a retired civil servant, who is ...