1867 Reform Bill

Lord Palmerston PM 1855-1865

William Gladstone (Chancellor of Exchequer)

Richard Cobden

New Model Unions

• Amalgamated Society of Engineers
• London Trades Council 1860
• Trades Union Congress (TUC) 1868

Nonconformity

American Civil War

• Lancashire cotton famine

John Bright

Reform Union

• Household suffrage

Reform League

• Manhood suffrage

Gladstone's intervention

Whig to Liberal

Lord John Russell. PM 1865-

New Reform Bill

• L7 Householder

Benjamin Disraeli

• Household Suffrage
• "Dishing the Whigs"

1867 Reform Bill

London Suffrage Committee 1868

• Millicent Fawcett
• Mrs. Lily Maxwell

Walter Bagehot

The English Constitution 1867

• Accountable Executive
• No Separation of Powers
• Behind the Scenes
  • efficient
  • dignified
• deference

Gladstone

Mill

Bagehot

"Shooting Niagara"

The Whig Tradition

What were the essential elements of Gladstone's support for expanding the right to vote?

How do you explain Disraeli's intervention?

Why were women excluded?