GREVILLE, Charles C. F.

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The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV. First edition of the memoirs of one of the most significant English political and social diarists of the nineteenth century. Published after his death, Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville's diaries remain an important historical record. Greville (1794-1865). A staunch believer in the notion that "there is always something to be learned from everybody if you touch them on the points they know," Greville was a keen observer who was fascinated by people. In his role as Clerk to Privy Council, he encountered many of the great political minds of his time, among them: Wellington, Melbourne, Palmerston, and Peel. Included in his memoirs are recollections of the Crimean War and subsequent peace treaty, the Indian Rebellion and siege of Lucknow, the formation of the Liberal Party in 1859, and relations with Napoleon III.

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