A collection of essays in honour of Clyve Jones who has made an incomparable contribution to our understanding of the history of the Westminster house of lords – its politics, procedures and business – and to the history of the English and Scottish peerage more generally
- Written in tribute by friends and fellow historians of the Lords
- Examines aspects of the political activities and social lives of the peerage between c. 1650 and c. 1850, following up many of the themes reflected in Clyve’s own writings
- A particular focus on the period between the Glorious Revolution and the fall of Walpole, with several articles on the Scottish contingent in the Upper House
- Also stretches well into the 19th century with subjects discussed not only parliamentary management, but the electioneering activities of aristocratic magnates, and the contribution of aristocratic women to the political world of late Stuart England
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vi
Notes on Contributors vii
D.W.Hayton,Clyve Jones and Parliamentary History 1
Jason Peacey,The Duke’s Parrot:The Earl of Leicester,the King’s Children and the English Revolution 7
Frances Harris, The ‘Little Palaces’ of St James’s: Ladies, Lords, and Political Association under the later Stuarts 25
Graham Townend,Republicans,Unionists and Jacobites:The 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and the Restoration of the British Parliament 34
Daniel Szechi,Playing with Fire:The 4th Duke of Hamilton’s Jacobite Politics and the Union 62
Charles Littleton,‘’Tis Not in the Power of Words to Tell What My Heart Feels in Favour of You’;or,What the Ossulston Diary Does Not Reveal 85
D.W.Hayton,Party and Management in the Irish House of Lords,1713-15 99
Stuart Handley, The Members of the House of Lords and the Hanoverian Succession 126
Robin Eagles, ‘A Reward for so Meritorious an Action’? Lord Hervey’s Summons to the House of Lords and Walpole’s Management of the Upper Chamber (1727-42) 143
Richard Connors and Ben Gilding, ‘Hereditary Guardians of the Nation’: The House of Lords and the East India Company in the Age of the American Revolution 159
Richard A. Gaunt, A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle 190
John Beckett,Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons:The Case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham By-Election,1834 205
Bibliography of the Published Works of Clyve Jones 220
Index 228
