Derbyshire’s Literary Connections
From then this government would be recognized as the “Who? Who?” ministry. The party program was in a state of flux when the Conservatives left office in 1846, the outstanding issues getting the question of Ireland and the unresolved franchise. The protectionists had a core of leaders, of whom Derby was a top light. Though they did not participate in Peel’s quick-lived 1835 ministry, more than the subsequent numerous years they progressively merged into Peel’s Conservative Party, with quite a…