Lord Derby
Posted by:
Prof Jonathan Parry, Posted on:
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Categories:
No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers
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Disraeli said of Derby that ‘he abolished slavery, he educated Ireland, he reformed parliament’, but only the last of these was done when he was a Conservative Prime Minister. He is remembered mostly for the 1867 Reform Act, a milestone …