Books: The unpolitical premier Lord Melbourne's private life was far more colourful than his political career, says Boyd Hilton

The Sunday Telegraph London | May 18, 1997| | Copyright

Lord Melbourne, 1779-1848

by L. G. Mitchell

Oxford, pounds 25, 349 pp AT FIRST sight no two prime ministers could be more dissimilar than Lord Melbourne and John Major. Melbourne had wit, style, erudition, breeding. Yet there are some striking parallels. Like Major, Melbourne rose without trace. While serving in Lord Grey's Cabinet "he pretended to be a pair of curtains" (to borrow Lord McAlpine's description of Major under Thatcher). When Grey was forced to resign because of a Cabinet crisis in 1834, he recommended Melbourne to succeed him, but continued to regard himself as "the real Prime ...

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