'I agree with Lord David [Cecil] that Melbourne as a friend or relative must have been one of the most delightful, wise and entertaining of men, but in public life I believe him also to have been ambitious, cynical and almost wholly without political principle. He was, in short, much less of a carefree amateur, much more of a politician.' Philip Ziegler, from his Preface
First published in 1976, Philip Ziegler's Melbourne drew on hitherto unused material and made an unprecedently searching assessment of the eminent Whig statesman of the 1830s/40s. It is extraordinary enough that Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister should have been dragged through the courts by an aggrieved husband not once but twice. Yet Melbourne's 'problematic' personal life is only one reason why Ziegler, even-handed and scrupulous, was compelled to test the validity of Victoria's famous final judgement that Melbourne was 'not a good or firm minister'.

• We started tracking this book on August 22, 2016.
• This book was £15.98 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 91 times in the past 2,818 days.
• The current price of this book is £13.99 last checked one day ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past 90 days.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past six months is £12.99.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is £10.99.
• The lowest price to date was £4.66 last reached on November 7, 2019.
• This book has been £4.66 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £15.98 last reached on March 9, 2019.
• This book has been £15.98 3 times since we started tracking it.

• Biography & True AccountsHistoricalEuropeIreland
• Biography & True AccountsHistoricalUnited Kingdom
• Biography & True AccountsHistoricalEuropeGeneral

• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 629 Pages
• File Size: 16,025 KB