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Notes

1
“An almost embarrassing wealth”: H. H. Asquith, I, 273, 275.

2
“Nerve storms”: Kennedy, 353.

3
Family threw cushions: Frances Balfour, I, 311.

4
“Poor Buller”: Young, 168; talking to Lord Roberts: Russell, 54–55.

5
Horse an “inconvenient adjunct”: Cecil, I, 176.

6
He told Dumas
fils: The Times
, Aug. 24, 1903.

7
“Jump on behind”: Kennedy, 241.

8
Pepys on Hatfield garden: q. R. Churchill,
Fifteen Homes
, 74.

9
“Jump, dammit …!”:
ibid.
, 71.

10
“Quite exceptional stupidity”: Cecil, I, 1.

11
Birkenhead on the Cecils: Birkenhead, 177.

12
Disraeli quoted: Mackintosh, 50–51.

13
“That black man”: ibid.

14
Morley, “blazing indiscretion”: q. H. H. Asquith, II, 277.

15
“Every sentence,” said a fellow member: Ribblesdale, 173.

16
“I thought he was dead”:
National Review
, “Lord Salisbury: His Wit and Humor,” Nov., 1931, 659–68.

17
“When will all this be over?”: Carpenter, 237.

18
Colleagues complained: Cecil, III, 177.

19
“Just a little more off here”: Ribblesdale, 174.

20
His charm “no small asset”: Hicks-Beach, q. Cecil, III, 178.

21
“I think I have done them all”:
National Review
, op. cit., 665.

22
Gladstone quoted: Mackintosh, 50–51.

23
“Not excluding the House of Commons”: Lucy,
Eight Parliaments
, 114.

24
Queen Victoria quoted: Carpenter, 236.

25
“Bad on his legs”: F. Ponsonby, 67.

26
“Oh, I daresay”: Benson, 164.

27
“Splitting it into a bundle”:
Quarterly Review
, Oct., 1883, 575.

28
Articles in
Quarterly Review:
quotations in this and the following two paragraphs are from Cecil, I, 149, 157–60, 196.

29
Speech against Disraeli’s policy: July 5, 1867,
Hansard,
3rd Series, Vol. 188, 1097 ff.

30
“Grim acidity”: Gardiner,
Prophets
, 150.

31
“Rank without power”: Cecil, II, 5.

32
Curzon quoted: Ronaldshay, I, 282.

33
“Secure and comfortable”: Buchan, 75.

34
Duke of Devonshire on Harcourt’s Budget:
Annual Register
, 1894, 121.