King Edward And His Court

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King Edward And His Court
Thomas Hay Sweet Escott
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Earle's genius was for delicate political negotia- tions. While conducting these in the Conservative interest he thought himself at liberty to pledge his chief not to bring in a Reform Bill. The House- hold Franchise measure of Derby and Disraeli made its appearance. As a man of honour Earle felt bound to resign his office ; he quitted political life for ever.
In his retiring speech to the House of Commons he offered some observations on the behaviour of the leader of the House ; these, ignored
... by Disraeli at the time, elicited afterwards from him an expression 129 K King Edward VII. and his Court of surprise, not at the moral qualities shown by his former ^secretary, but at the false move in political conduct committed by so clever a man. The remainder of Earle's active life was passed in obtaining concessions for great contractors for rail- way and other works from foreign Powers. In this way he realised something like a fortune, whose accumulation he kept so entirely to himself as to put his nearest relatives off the scent by asking them to lend him ;^50 on going abroad to recruit his health at Kreuznach; in that little Rhenish village soon after (1878) he died.

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