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Disraeli and Electoral Reform
In 1865 Palmerston died and Lord Russell once again became Prime Minister. He set out to reform Parliament. Firstly the Franchise and secondly the distribution of seats.

In England and Wales there were a million voters. To vote you had to be male and have property of a certain value. Therefore it was mainly a middle class vote. The distribution of votes had not changed since 1832 even though the industrial age had brought many changes and developments.

The timing was wrong. The Bill was defeated in the House and Russell resigned. Derby replaced him and Disraeli became Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Conservatives drafted their own Bill and eventually it went through. It doubled the electorate. In 1868 Derby resigned due to ill health and Disraeli became Prime Minister.

Robert Browning
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)

Poet
Father was a Bank of England clerk
Admired Shelley and Elizabeth Browning whom he began writing to in 1845
Married in 1846
J S Mill said of him "a more intense and morbid self-consciousness than I ever knew in any sane being"
Introduced narrative into poetry
Influenced Rossetti
Buried in Westminster Abbey

did you know?
In 1868 flogging in the peacetime army was abolished.

VICTORIA PRIME MINISTERS (1837-1868)

Viscount Melbourne (1837-1841)

Sir Robert Peel (1841-1846)

Lord John Russell ( 1846-1852)

Earl of Derby (1852)

Earl of Aberdeen (1852-1855)

Viscount Palmerston (1855-1858)

Earl of Derby (1858-1859)

Viscount Palmerston (1859-1865)

Earl Russell (1865-1866)

Earl of Derby (1866-1868)

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1837 Victoria becomes Queen

1859 Palmerston becomes Prime Minister

1861 Prince Albert dies

1865 Palmerston dies
Russell becomes Prime Minister

1868 Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
Gladstone becomes Prime Minister

1870 Franco-Prussian War
First Irish Land Act

1874 Disraeli becomes Prime Minister

1877 Victoria becomes Empress of India

1880 Gladstone becomes Prime Minister

1881 Disraeli dies
Second Irish Land Act

1885 Salisbury becomes Prime Minister

1887 Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee

1892 Gladstone becomes Prime Minister

1894 Rosebery becomes Prime Minister

1895 Salisbury becomes Prime Minister

1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

1898 Gladstone dies

1899 Second Boer War breaks out

1901 Queen Victoria dies
Edward VII becomes king

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