Review - Books: More power than principle Lord Salisbury is at last emerging from the shadow of Gladstone and Disraeli, says John Grigg

The Sunday Telegraph London | September 12, 1999| | Copyright

Salisbury: Victorian Titan

by Andrew Roberts

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 25, 938 pp

Lord Salisbury:

A Political Biography

by David Steele

UCL Press, pounds 45, 472 pp

ROBERT, THIRD marquess of Salisbury, was a political giant and one of the Tory party's most successful leaders. Though not, like Disraeli, a man of genius, he was intellectually more than equal to his great Liberal antagonist Gladstone, since his mind took in science as well as the humanities. He was also far more amusing.

Among British Prime Ministers, he was one of the longest- serving. When he retired in 1902 he had been at ...

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