Lord Malmesbury
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Statesman who received Disraeli's 1852 letter dismissing the value of the colonies.
he stands in popular imagination, and not quite without reason, as the forerunner of imperialism, but he wrote in 1852 to Lord Malmesbury, “These wretched colonies will all be independent in a few years, and are a millstone round our necks.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Statesman whose Papers document negotiations over the English claim to the French throne.
In the repeated negotiations between the British Government and the first French Republic, which at last bore fruit in the hollow and transient Peace of Amiens, the question of giving up this title and armorial bearings played a considerable part, as may be seen from the Papers of Lord Malmesbury.