It has been said, “Happy the woman that has no history.” It was never more than a half-truth, and in the face of a career like Lady Campbell-Bannerman’s it has an ironic sound. But for her long illness it can hardly be doubted that she would have used her very remarkable gifts in a way that would have left her personal impress on her generation. Hampered and exhausted by suffering, she was yet able to affect passing events by reason of the immense influence she exercised on her husband, who took no action without consulting her. It may perhaps be mentioned here that the rumours of his remarriage after her death, maliciously circulated at the time, never had the least foundation. On the contrary, he never recovered his loss, and only survived her by little more than a year. L. M. INDEX [_No reference is made in this Index to the wives of the Prime Ministers in the chapters specially devoted to them._] Abercromby, Lady Mary, 87. Aberdeen, Lord, 59, 86, 186. -- Lady, 206. Acland, Sir Henry, 192. _Ada Reis_, 41. Adelaide, Queen, 166. Ainslie, General, 45. Albert, Prince Consort, 57, 170. Alderson, Lord, 218. Almack’s, 102. Althorp, 3. Amberley, Lord, 96. -- Lady, 92. Ashley, Lord, 106, 183. -- Wilfrid W., 124. Bedford, Duke of, 113. Belmont Castle, 246. Berry, Miss, 66. Bessborough, Lord, 1, 5. Bismarck, 66. Brabazon, Lady, 163. Bradenham, 132, 133, 148. Braybrooke, Lord, 156. Breadalbane House, 128. Broadlands, 111. Brocket Hall, 17, 22, 32, 40, 101, 129. Brooke, Sir Richard, 163. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 201. Bruce, Sir Charles, 234. Brydone, Patrick, 63. Buccleuch, Duke of, 71. -- Duchess of, 66. Bulwer, E. G. L., 29, 31 etc., 104, 140. -- Rosina, 35, 131, 136. Bunsen, 170. -- Baroness, 78. Byron, Lord, 8 etc., 26, 40. -- Lady, 7, 16. Cambridge, Duke of, 159, 166, 167, 236. -- Duchess of, 166. -- House, 120. Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 235, 237, 238, 241, 243. Carnarvon, Lord, 225. Castlereagh, Lady, 103. Cavendish, Lady Frederick, 209. Cavour, 87, 88. Cecil, Lord Edward, 232. Chalon, A. E., 155. “Chapel of Ease,” The, 212. Chartist demonstration, 81. Charleville, Lady, 35. Chatham, Earl of, 156. Chorley Wood, 75. Cobden, 122. Cork, Lady, 35. Cowper, fifth Earl, 101, 107. -- Lady, 3, 7, 102, 105, 107. -- Lady Emily, 106. -- Lady Frances, 106. Crimean War, 85. Davy, Sir Humphry, 52. Dawson, Geo., 155. Deepdene, 141. Derby (Lord Stanley), Lord, 170, 174, 221. de Rothschild, Lady, 144. -- Sir A., 144, 145. -- Baroness J., 146. de Tabley, Lord, 173. Devonshire, Duke of, 7. -- Georgiana, Duchess of, 1. Dickens, 80, 142. -- _David Copperfield_, 81. Disraeli, 39, 97, 109, 111, 134, 135, 141, 142, 149. -- _Coningsby_, 147, 155. -- _Sybil_, 104, 121, 144. Disraeli, _Tancred_, 145, 147.