Palmerston

A figure described as “the last candle of the Eighteenth Century”, Lord Palmerston was the great statesman of his era. 

He served in the War Office in the days of Empire, then in the Foreign and Home Offices before ascending to Prime Minister very late in his life, an office which he held twice. 

A controversial figure still today, this is the biographical account of a man who shaped the future of the British nation and empire. 

In ‘Palmerston’ Philip Guedalla praises the life of a man who met Metternich, Lincoln and Bismarck. 

He refuses to cover him in a traditional biography in the “normal academic method”. Instead the writer, draws a portrait of the bygone era in well-researched prose that never dulls. 

This detail-rich and historically aware account of Palmerston’s life is regarded as one of the best biographies on this eminent figure. 

Philip Guedalla, born in 1889, died in 1944. At Oxford he was President of the Union Society; later he was called to the Bar and contested several Parliamentary elections as a Liberal. Having become interested in British relations with South America, he founded the Ibero-American Institute and was responsible for the Latin-American Division of the British Council. During the war he lectured in both North and South America, and broadcast frequently to South America. Among other distinguished books by him are The Second Empire, Palmerston, The Duke and The Hundred Years. 

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