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The life of Henry Labouchere

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A biographical portrait traces the subject’s life from upbringing through a long political and journalistic career, emphasizing an independent Radicalism grounded in reason rather than party loyalty and a pragmatic role in England’s democratizing developments. It outlines French origins and intellectual formation, philosophical agnosticism, sceptical wit, and habitual distrust of enthusiasm and humbug. Public episodes include parliamentary clashes, press controversies, and a refusal to seek office, while private sketches highlight sociability, kindness to children, personal modesty, and anecdotal scenes that illuminate temperament and convictions.

For many days after his death, the letters of condolence and sympathy from all quarters of the globe continued to pour into the deserted home. Of these one must assuredly be published, for it bears witness to the loyalty and affection that was unfailingly manifested to him by the borough he had represented for twenty-five years in Parliament. It was addressed to Marchesa di Rudini, by Mr. Edwin Barnes, the Secretary of the Northampton Liberal and Radical Association, and ran as follows:


At a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the above Association, held last night, the following resolution was unanimously passed, which I was directed to send to you: "The Liberals and Radicals of Northampton have heard with the deepest regret of the death of the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, who, for more than a quarter of a century, faithfully represented the Borough in the House of Commons. The members of the Executive of the Northampton Liberal and Radical Association hereby place on record the profound gratitude of all its members for the loyal service which Mr. Labouchere rendered to the cause of Democracy during so many years. Whoever faltered, he stood firm, and it will always be a proud remembrance that Northampton also stood firm, and that there was no break in the mutual confidence of member and constituents. To his daughter, the Marchesa di Rudini, and other members of Mr. Labouchere's family, we offer our sincerest sympathy in the irreparable loss that they have sustained, and trust they may find some consolation in the warm tributes that have been paid by men of all parties to his life, character, and work." Having known Mr. Labouchere for many years, and being his agent in the important election of 1900 (during the Boer War), allow me to add my own personal sympathy and condolence with you.



[1] May 12, 1905.

[2] M.A.P., Dec. 30, 1905.

[3] Morning Post, Dec. 23, 1905.

[4] Penny Illustrated Paper, Feb. 25, 1893.

[5] Truth, Sept. 21, 1900.

[6] The Referee, Jan. 21, 1912.




INDEX


Abbeville, Labouchere at, 141

Abbot, Labouchere's action against, 108, 109

Abdulal Pasha, exile of, 221

Abercorn, Duke of, 85

Aberdeen, Earl of, 262; Col. Turner as aide to, 361

Adelphi Theatre, Green at the, 29

Affirmation Act, passing of the, 160

Afghan War, the, 143

Afrikanders, National League of, 437

Aix, Provence, Fouché exiled to, 12

Albert, Prince, 67

Albret, Jeanne d', founder of the Protestant University at Orthez, 1

Alexander II., Emperor of Russia, watches Labouchere at écarté, 57

Alexandria, bombardment of, 71, 194, 195, 196, 218

Aliens Bill, 170

Alison on Mexico, 33

Alison, Sir Archibald, his command in Egypt, 209

Alliance Loan, the, 13

Allsopp, Labouchere on, 239

America, Bradlaugh in, 161-64; Fenianism in, 81, 170, 288, 309-10, 385; its constitution an example for England and Ireland, 237-8, 293, 294, 298, 531-33; its diplomats in Paris during the siege, 43; its interest in Labouchere's Paris letters, 96; its labour system compared with English, 461, 471, 479; its surgery and its girls in the Franco-Prussian War, 44, 45; its system of education, 42; Labouchere's prediction for, 14, 41, 44, 226; Lord Taunton travels in, 14-15; unpopularity of Parnell in, 378

Amiens, Labouchere at, 140

Amsterdam, house of Hope at, 2, 10

Anarchist party, the, 418

Anglo-American War, 9

Anne, Queen, Labouchere on, 245

Antwerp, 7, 10

Appeals in the House of Lords, Labouchere on, 83

Appropriation Act, the, 354

Arabi Pasha, exile of, 203-9, 219-24; rebellion of, 70-1, 195-98, 202, 215

Arago, Mayor of Paris, 127

Arklow, Parnell at, 258

Armenian persecutions, the, 435

Arms Bill, the, 172

Army, Labouchere on the, 478

Arrears Bill, the passing of, 176, 179, 181, 183, 187, 252, 361

Ascot, Labouchere at, 106

Ashbourne, his Irish policy, 279

Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., counsel for Parnell v. Walter, 374 n., 407

Assouan, 209

Athlone, Stamforth contests, 525

Atkinson, American statist, 468

Atkinson, counsel for the Times, 374 n.

Audiffret-Pasquier, Duc d', Histoire de Mon Temps, 13 n.

Austen, Charles, correspondent in Paris during the siege, 141 n.

Australia, J. R. Cox in, 223

Austria, customs union with, 418

Austrian chargé d'affaires, in Stockholm, Labouchere's duel with, 50

Austro-Prussian War, the, 97

Avebury, Lord, at Eton, 18

Aztecs, the, in Mexico, 34


Bacon, Lord, quoted, 20, 515

Baden-Baden, Labouchere at, 54, 65

Baggallay, Lord Justice, his judgment against Bradlaugh, 157; on Labouchere in Hyde Park, 364

Baker, his army in Egypt, 199

Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., administration of, 438, 517, 518, 524, 531; Bannerman on, 455; Gladstone's letters to, re Home Rule, 289, 298; his coercive measures as Irish Secretary, 357-60; Labouchere on his philosophy, 369

Ballantine, Serjeant, acts as counsel for Labouchere, 76 n., 77; at Evans', 29; dines with Labouchere and Orton, 116

Balloons, as letter carriers, during the siege of Paris, 128-35

Ballot Act, amendments of the, 272

Balston, Edward, Labouchere's house master at Eton, 18

Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell, his letters to Labouchere, re retirement, 517, 523; his premiership, 518, 524, 531; on Chamberlain's South African policy, 427, 448, 449, 454, 455

Baring, Alexander, partner in the house of Hope, 2

Baring, Rev. Alexander, his story of P.-C. Labouchère, 2

Baring Brothers, restore French credit, 12, 13; their crisis in 1890, 489

Baring, Dorothy, her marriage to P.-C. Labouchère, 2

Baring, Emily, marriage of, 14 n.

Baring, Sir Evelyn. See Lord Cromer

Baring, Hon. Francis Henry, 3 n.

Baring, Sir Francis, consents to his daughter's marriage, 3; his friendship with Wellesley, 5, 7, 8

Baring, Lucy, daughter of Charles, 13 n.

Baring, Sir Thomas, his daughters' marriages, 14

Baring, M.P., Thomas Charles, 3 n.

Baring. See Lord Revelstoke

Barnes, Edwin, Secretary of Northampton Liberal and Radical Association, 539

Barrère, Camille, on the staff of the World, 107

Barrier, Jean Guyon, 2

Barrow, Cavendish influence at, 350

Barton fights Labouchere at Eton, 18

Bass, Labouchere on, 239

Bathurst, Lord, as Foreign Secretary, 6

Bavaria, an example for Ireland, 533

Bayonne, 1

Bazaine, Marshal, at Metz, 123, 124

Beaconsfield, Earl of, advises Northcote in the Bradlaugh case, 154; arranges an Egyptian loan with Rothschilds, 190, 191; attends the Berlin Congress, 191, 192; defeated at Taunton, 13, 14; his administration, 85, 86, 235, 520; his Imperialism, 143

Bedford, Duke of, Burke's letter to, 231

Beefsteak Club, the, Labouchere's expulsion from, 117

Beit, Alfred, his complicity in the Jameson Raid, 426, 428, 431

Belfast, manufacturers of, 276, 319

Belgium, Egypt compared with, 203, 206

Bell, Moberley, manager of the Times, 436

Bellew, Kyrle, début of, 111, 496

Bellew, Montesquieu, Labouchere travels to Palestine with, 111-13, 496

Belloc, Hilaire, as a conversationalist, 73

Bennett, Robert, editor of Truth, 518; on Labouchere as a journalist, 491-516

Berlin Congress, the, Disraeli and Salisbury attend, 191, 192

—— Decree of, 9

Beza, Theodore, professor at Orthez, 1

Bigham, 427. See Lord Mersey

Bingham, Captain Hon. D., in Paris during the siege, 138 n., 141 n.

Birmingham, Chamberlain, M.P. for, 167, 241, 322, 323; death-rate of, 463

Birmingham Post, 455

Biron, Mr., counsel for Labouchere, 76 n.

Bishop Auckland, Labouchere at, 118

Bishops, Labouchere on, 241

Bismarck, 96 n.; as Ambassador at St. Petersburg, 62; at the Berlin Congress, 192; his Memoirs, 70; threatens intervention in Egypt, 194

Blackwood, Sir Arthur, at Eton, 18

Blake, his support of Labouchere, 427

Blanc, Louis, Labouchere protected by, 132

Blaquières, M. de, French controller in Egypt, 195

Bloemfontein, capture of, 454

—— Conference, the, 455

Blücher, General, 57

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, Gordon and Khartoum, quoted, 214; his reminiscences of Labouchere, 69-73; his support of Arabi Pasha, 204, 222; Labouchere's letters to, re Arabi in exile, 220, 224; Labouchere's letters to, re the Soudan War, 216-19; on the death of Gordon, 212; on Disraeli and Salisbury, 174; on the English policy in Egypt, 193, 204, 214-15; on Labouchere as a politician, 198, 214; Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt, quoted, 190 n., 192 n.

Boadicea, 244

Boer War, the history of the, 436-57; Labouchere's protests against, 436, 438-39, 540

Boers, the, their resentment against England, 437. See also under Transvaal

Bologna, 61

Bonn, 32

Bonner, Mrs. Bradlaugh, Life of Mr. Bradlaugh, 142 n.

Booth, Charles, statist, 460

Booth, Sclater, Labouchere on, 239

Boston, Labouchere mistaken for an Irish patriot, in, 47, 48

Boulogne, Labouchere at, 500

Bourbon, the House of, 8

Bowen, Lord Justice, 501

Bower, Sir Graham, censure of, 428

Bowles, Thomas Gibson, correspondent in Paris during the siege, 141 n.

Boycott, Captain, English agent of Lord Mayo, 165

Boycotting, practice of, 165, 176, 185

Boyd, Charles, his interview with Labouchere, 435, 436

Bradford, election of 1886 at, 326

—— Forster, M.P. for, 176

Bradlaugh, Charles, Gladstone's tribute to, 160-61; his imprisonment, 154; his struggle for the right to affirm, 145-64; Labouchere's defence of, 148, 151, 156-64; returned for Northampton, 142-45, 158

Brampton, Henry, Lord, his letter to Labouchere, re retirement, 526

Bramwell, Lord Justice, his decision against Bradlaugh, 157

Brand, M.P. for Stroud, 334

Brand, Sir Henry, 238; his rulings in the Bradlaugh struggle, 146, 151-2, 160

Brassey, Lord, Labouchere on, 239

Brennan, his imprisonment, 172, 174

Brentford, election scenes at, in 1868, 86, 90-2

Breslin, John, American Fenian, 385, 396

Breteuil, Labouchere at, 140

Brett, 280, 289

Bridges, Sir Henry, his ditty, 117. See Appendix

Brielle, 6

Bright, John, his defence of Bradlaugh, 146, 149-51; Labouchere's admiration of, 171, 228; opposes coercive measures in Ireland, 166, 181, 187; opposes the Egyptian policy, 220

Brighton, Labouchere at, 269, 273; Voules at, 507

Bristol, Lord, Labouchere's fag at Eton, 19 n.

British South Africa Company, its complicity in the Jameson Raid, 426-37, 438, 452, 454; its evacuation of Uganda, 420

British virtue, Labouchere's indictments of, 105

Broadley, A. M., How We Defended Arabi and His Friends, quoted by Arabi, 222

Broome Hall, Surrey, John Peter Labouchere at, 16, 31, 73

Broue, Catherine de la, 2

Brough, Lionel, at New Queen's Theatre, 99; bluffs Labouchere, 94

Brousson, L., on the staff of Truth, 505, 509

Brownrigg, Inspector, Labouchere on his conduct at Michelstown, 368-71

Bruce, Campbell, counsel, 76 n.

Brunner, Mr., at Michelstown, 365, 367

Brunswick, House of, Bradlaugh's impeachment of, 148

Bryce, James, on the Coercion Bill, 182

Buckenbrock, Labouchere's friendship with, 52

Budget Bill of 1885, the, 251

Buenos Ayres, Labouchere's appointment in, 65

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Indians in, 40

Buffon quoted, 133

Bulgaria, Turks in, 200

Buller, his policy in Ireland, 361

Buller, Sir Henry, as Ambassador at Constantinople, 54, 63, 64. See Lord Dalling

Buller, Sir Redvers, in Pretoria, 440

Bunsen, Labouchere on, 308

Buonaparte, Jerome, 9

Buonaparte, Joseph, in Spain, 8, 9

Buonaparte, Louis, as king of Holland, 5-9

Bureaucracy, Labouchere on, 122

Burke, Under-Secretary for Ireland, murder of, 174, 175, 359, 372

Burke, Edmund, his letter to the Duke of Bedford, 231

Burmah as a political pawn, 310-12

Burnaby, Captain Fred, his reminiscence of Labouchere, 242

Busch, Our Chancellor, 53 n.

Butler, General Sir William, his command in South Africa, 437

Buxton, Sidney, 427

Byrne, Frank, 386

Byron, H. J., Dearer than Life, 99


Cadenabbia, Labouchere at, 418-21, 423, 515, 535

Caine, M.P., Labouchere on, 350

Cairnes, quoted by Hyndman, 481, 482

Cairo, Arabi at, 70, 204; General Gordon in, 212; Lord Wolseley in, 208; Prefect of Police at, 216

Calais, Labouchere at, 127

Calcraft, hangman, 115

Caldwell's dancing rooms, 105

Callan, M.P., Mr., on Bright and Bradlaugh, 150

Cambridge, St. Peter's College, 23; Trinity College, Labouchere at, 22-7, 251, 491, 522

Cambridge, Duchess of, her friendship with Labouchere, 54

Campbell, secretary to Parnell, 375, 396

Campbell, Sir George, 208

Canada, Dominion of, Labouchere on, 301, 304

Canning, George, his duel with Castlereagh, 6

Canrobert, Marshal, his corps, 123 n.

Cape Colony, Lord Milner as Governor of, 437; Rhodes as Premier of, 427, 430; war spirit in, 437

Capital v. Labour, discussed by Hyndman and Labouchere at Northampton, 458-90

Cardwell, Mr., 136

Carey, James, informer, forged letters to, 372, 374, 375, 384

Carlisle, Earl of, 14

Carnarvon, Lord, as Viceroy of Ireland, 251-56, 279, 282, 286

Carrington, Lord, assaults Grenville Murray, 110 n.

Caspian Sea, the, 135

Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, firm of, 493

Castlereagh, his duel with Canning, 6

Catholic Emancipation, question of, 6

Cattle-maiming in Ireland, 165, 169

Cavendish family, the, their influence at Barrow, 350

Cavendish, Lord E., Chamberlain on, 271

Cavendish, Lord Frederick, 146; murder of, 174, 175, 188, 358, 359, 372

Cavour, Gladstone on, 419; Labouchere's reminiscences of, 62

Ceylon, Arabi's exile in, 204-9, 220-24

Châlons, French camp at, 122-23 n.

Chamberlain, Joseph, as President of the Local Government Board, 317 n.; Churchill on, 209; Healy on, 303, 363; his alleged complicity in the Jameson Raid, 427, 431, 446, 452; his correspondence with Labouchere re the Boer War, 446-54; his correspondence with Labouchere on Home Rule, 261-356; his Egyptian policy, 70, 211, 212; his Irish policy prior to the Home Rule Bill, 256-303; his probable Premiership, 226, 227, 249, 280, 319, 320, 349; his responsibility, as Colonial Secretary, for the Boer War, 437-38, 442-57; his scheme of Home Rule, 255, 326; his secession from the Liberal party over Home Rule, 226-28, 318-355; Labouchere's admiration of, 259; Labouchere's letters to, re Bradlaugh, 159; Labouchere's letters to, re the Egyptian policy, 205-6, 210, 211; Labouchere's letters to, re the Irish Coercion Bill, 177-187; Labouchere's letters to, re Radicalism, 41-2, 226-27; Labouchere's opposition to, 519, 531; on Gladstone's Irish policy, 167, 189, 226, 263, 266, 271, 306; on Herbert Gladstone, 265; on the House of Lords, 241; on the Land Question, 276, 292; on the Parnell Commission, 383; on Salisbury's Irish policy, 251; opposes the use of coercion in Ireland, 165, 173, 189

Chaplin, M.P., Henry, 146, 150; on the Coercion Bill, 187

Chartered Company. See British South Africa.

Chatham, Earl of, his death, 6

Chaumes, Prussian army at, 127

Chelmsford, Morley at, 322

Chesterfield, Philip, Earl of, his Letters to His Son, 29; quoted, 88

Chevreau, M., 126

Chiala, Signor, on the relations between England and Italy, 410

Chicago, Healy in, 310