[51] Queen Victoria. [52] The Lord Chancellor. [53] See p. 56. [54] A picture showing an unusual side of the stern disciplinarian. He was sixty-eight. [55] Mr. Gladstone was Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint. [56] By Samuel Warren. [57] The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), politician and book collector. His bequest of books to the British Museum forms the Grenville Library. [58] Minister for War and the Colonies. Afterwards Lord Derby, and Prime Minister in 1852, 1858, and 1866. [59] Frederick William IV. [60] With whom Mrs. Gladstone soon formed a lasting friendship. [61] The Duke of Sutherland’s London house, now the London Museum. [62] 16th June 1842. [63] She was appointed to the office in 1842, and held it until 1851. [64] The Princess Royal, afterwards Empress Frederick of Germany. [65] Her sister, Lady Lyttelton. [66] Born 18th October 1842. Afterwards Mrs. Wickham. [67] Born 1844. [68] Born 1845. [69] He had gone to London on the 16th. [70] Nicholas I. [71] Now Lord Gladstone. [72] He visited and made notes concerning 5530 churches in England and Wales. _Notes on the Churches of Kent_, by Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., 1877. [73] 29th July 1864. [74] Mr. Gladstone died three weeks after the letter was received. [75] They consisted chiefly of boys whose father or mother had died in the London Hospital. [76] Cf. her “Cry of the Children,” first printed in _Blackwood’s Magazine_, August 1843. [77] 26th November 1879. [78] Afterwards Edward VII. [79] Now George V. [80] The surname Bannerman was taken when her husband inherited, under his uncle’s will in 1872, a considerable fortune and the Castle Belmont property in Forfar. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. Index not systematically checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references, but the following discrepancies were found: the index reference to “D’Orsay, Count, 132” was misprinted as “133” and has been changed here; “Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duke of” appears in the index, but the name does not appear anywhere else; and the index reference to “Villa Garbarius” is printed as “Villa Garbarino” on page 90. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Wives of the Prime Ministers 1844-1906, by Elizabth Lee and Lucy Blanche Masterman