A Character of the Trimmer : Being a Short Life of the First Marquis of Halifax (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Birth, ancestry, and childhood; 2. Youth; 3. The Restoration. Savile enters politics. Ascendancy of Clarendon; 4. In the House of Lords. Ascendancy of Buckingham and the 'cabal'. The embassy of 1670; 5. Under Danby's ascendancy; 6. The 'Popish plot'. Fall of Danby. The opposition in office; 7. In retreat: February to September 1680; 8. The exclusion contest of 1680/1; 9. In the government, 1681?5; 10. In disgrace, 1685?8; 11. The revolution, 1688?9; 12. In office, February 1688/9 to February 1689/90; 13. In opposition to the end: summary; Notes and references; Index.