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• A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborough (Augustan Reprint Society publication #168; Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1974), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by Paula R. Backscheider (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ten Tudor Statesmen (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1906), by Arthur D. Innes
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• Francis Bacon: His Career and His Thought (Arensberg lectures series 2; Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, c1962), by F. H. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• E. D. Morel: The Man and His Work (London: Allen and Unwin, 1920), by F. Seymour Cocks
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• The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections, by a Gentleman with a Duster (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), by Harold Begbie
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• Memory Hold-the-Door (1940), by John Buchan (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Great Lord Burghley: A Study in Elizabethan Statescraft (London: James Nisbet and Co., 1898), by Martin A. S. Hume
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• Memoirs and Correspondence of Lyon Playfair, First Lord Playfair of St. Andrews, P.C., G.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. (popular edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1900), by T. Wemyss Reid, contrib. by Lyon Playfair
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• The Passing Years (London et al.: Constable and Co., 1924), by Richard Greville Verney Willoughby de Broke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bacon (London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1888), by R. W. Church
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• Benedicti Abbatis Petriburgensis, De Vita et Miraculis S. Thomae Cantuar: The Life and Miracles of Saint Thomas of Canterbury (in Latin, with English notes; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by A. Black, 1850), by Abbot of Peterborough Benedict, ed. by J. A. Giles (multiple formats at Google)
• The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey (Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1905), by George Cavendish, illust. by Hans Holbein (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876), by George Otto Trevelyan, contrib. by Thomas Macaulay
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• The Life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (London: Printed for R. Blamire, 1784), by William Gilpin (multiple formats at Google)
• Oliver Cromwell (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1901), by Samuel Rawson Gardiner
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• Oliver Cromwell (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1909), by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The last Victorians (E. Benn, limited, 1927), by Arthur Anthony Baumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The last Victorians (J. B. Lippincott company, 1927), by Arthur Anthony Baumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketches of statesmen who flourished in the time of George III. To which is added, remarks on party, and an appendix. First series. (C. Knight & co., 1839), by Lord Brougham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketches of statesmen who flourished in the time of George III. Second series. (C. Knight & co., 1839), by Lord Brougham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketches of statesmen who flourished in the time of George III ... (C. Knight & co., 1845), by Lord Brougham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conservative mind (Mills & Boon, 1924), by Harold Begbie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Englische staatsmänner (Ullstein & co., 1917), by Geza Silberer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Political profiles from British public life (Houghton Mifflin company, 1921), by Herbert Sidebotham (page images at HathiTrust)
• English political portraits of the nineteenth century (Little, Brown, and company, 1929), by G. R. Stirling Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men in our time (R. M. McBride & company, 1940), by pseud Audax (page images at HathiTrust)
• From mill boy to minister; an intimate account of the life of the Rt. Honourable J.R. Clynes, M.P. (T. F. Unwin, 1918), by Edward George (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., ex-Lord Chancellor of Ireland : from his private correspondence (Longmans, Green, 1887), by Alex. Charles Ewald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political portraits (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1873), by Frank Harrison Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern English statesmen (R. M. McBride & company, 1921), by George Robert Stirling Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Henry, Lord Brougham (Harper, 1871), by Lord Brougham (page images at HathiTrust)
• English statesmen (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1875), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of eminent British statesmen ... (Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green [etc.], 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some political ideas and persons (E.P. Dutton & co., 1922), by John Cann Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical studies (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881), by Walter Bagehot and Richard Holt Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Sir Thomas More, knight. (Alexander Moring, The De la More Press, 1903), by William Roper and Thomas More (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• St. Thomas of Canterbury. (AMS Press, 1980), by Edwin A. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• State-worthies: or, The statesmen and favourites of England from the reformation to the revolution ... (Printed for J. Robson, 1766), by David Lloyd and Charles Whitworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence of two brothers: Edward Adolphus, eleventh duke of Somerset, and his brother, Lord Webb Seymour, 1800 to 1819 and after (Longmans, Green, 1906), by Guendolen Ramsden, Duke of Somerset, Webb John Seymour, and Edward Adolphus Seymour Somerset (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketches of statesmen who flourished in the time of George III. (R. Griffin and company, 1856), by Lord Brougham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel Pepys; a portrait in miniature (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925), by J. Lucas-Dubreton and H. J. Stenning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haud immemor. Reminiscences of legal and social life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900 (W. Blackwood & sons, 1901), by Charles Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories and reflections, 1852-1927 (Little, Brown, and Company, 1928), by H. H. Asquith and Alexander Mackintosh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey (Houghton Mifflin, 1905), by George Cavendish and Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political portraits; second series. (Macmillan, 1923), by Charles Whibley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical characters : Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning (Richard Bentley, 1868), by Henry Lytton Bulwer Dalling and Bulwer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engländer; the public men of England through a German's eyes (W. Collins, 1927), by Rudolf Kircher and Constance Vesey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Edmund Hornby : an autobiography (Houghton Mifflin, 1928), by Edmund Grimani Hornby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lord Reading (F.A. Stokes, 1928), by Cecil J. C. Street (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters, remains, and memoirs of Edward Adolphus Seymour, Twelfth Duke of Somerset ... (R. Bentley, 1893), by Edward Adolphus Seymour Somerset, Guendolen Ramsden, and W. H. Mallock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of the Hon. Roger North (D. Nutt; [etc., etc.], 1887), by Roger North and Augustus Jessopp (page images at HathiTrust)
• English statesmen (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1878), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical studies (Longmans, Green, 1907), by Walter Bagehot and Richard Holt Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdote lives of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and Edmund Burke (R. Bentley, 1880), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere. (John Murray, 1895), by John Martineau (page images at HathiTrust)
• A beacon for the blind; being a life of Henry Fawcett, the blind postmaster-general (Houghton Mifflin, 1914), by Winifred Holt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Morus. (Herder, 1879), by Reinhold Baumstark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Richard Cobden (Macmillan and co., limited, 1908), by John Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir William Gregory, K.C.M.G., formerly member of Parliament and sometime governor of Ceylon : an autobiography (J. Murray, 1894), by William Henry Gregory and Lady Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Henry Grattan (Allen, 1889), by Robert Dunlop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town, representative of the County of Nottingham in the Long Parliament, and of the Town of Nottingham in the first parliament of Charles the Second, with original anecdotes of many of the most distinguished of his contemporaries, and a summary review of public affairs (H. G. Bohn, 1863), by Lucy Hutchinson, Edward Chisenhale, Edward Halsall, and Julius Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and times of John Bright (T. F. Unwin, 1912), by William Robertson and A. M. Perkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lives of eminent British statesmen ... (Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green [etc.], 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel Pepys and the world he lived in (Bickers, 1880), by Henry Benjamin Wheatley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century (J.W. Jones, 1898), by John Clark Ridpath (page images at HathiTrust)
• E. Richard Cross : a biographical sketch, with literary papers and religious and political addresses (Dent ;, 1917), by Marion Wilkinson and E. Richard Cross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous English statesmen of Queen Victoria's reign (T. Y. Crowel & Co., 1891), by Sarah Knowles Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early history of Charles James Fox (Harper, 1880), by George Otto Trevelyan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (London : Printed for R. Blamire ..., 1784., 1784), by William Gilpin and George Puchinger Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of Lord Macaulay (Harper, 1877), by George Otto Trevelyan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Ralph Bernal Osborne, M.P. (Richard Bentley & Son, 1884), by Philip H. Bagenal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life, military and civil, of the Duke of Wellington, digested from the materials of W.H. Maxwell, and in part re-written by an old soldier with some account of his public funeral. (H.G. Bohn, 1852), by W. H. Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont ... (T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810), by FRANCIS HARDY (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Protector, a vindication (R. Carter, 1848), by J. H. Merle d'Aubigné (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burke (Macmillan, 1888), by John Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Philip Sidney (Harper & brothers, 1887), by John Addington Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and speeches of the Earl of Chatham (Longman, 1810), by John Almon, Thomas Davison, Thomas Bensley, and Hurst Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life, letters, and diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, first Earl of Iddesleigh (W. Blackwood, 1890), by Andrew Lang and Stafford Henry Northcote Iddesleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of Lord Macaulay (Longmans, Green, 1877), by George Otto Trevelyan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parliamentary record of elections in Great Britain and Ireland. (G. Crosby, 1847), by George Crosby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disraeli e Gladstone : ritratti contemporanei di Ruggero Bonghi. (Frat. Treves, 1881), by Ruggiero Bonghi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators--Burke (Done into a book by the Roycrofters at the Shop ..., 1903), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Macaulay's second essay on the Earl of Chatham : with notes and a sketch of Macaulay's life by D.H.M. (Ginn, 1897), by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Staatsmänner während der Regierungs-Epoche Georgs III. : mit Bemerkungen über Parteikämpfe und einem historischen Anhang (Dennig, Finck, & Co., 1839), by Lord Brougham and F. Kottenkamp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketches of the reform ministers (H. Fisher, 1832), by William Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Wolsey, legate and reformer. (Kennikat Press, 1970), by Ethelred L. Taunton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recollections (Macmillan, 1917), by John Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous English statesmen of Queen Victoria's reign (T.Y. Crowell, 1891), by Sarah K. Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and public services of the Right Honourable Sir Geo. Murray (Leicester & Hewitt, 1800), by Henry Thomas Ryall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone containing a full account of the most celebrated orator and statesman of modern times, comprising the graphic story of his life, his brilliant genius and remarkable traits of character ... a noble example to all aspiring young men, including his famous speeches and orations, striking incidents in his career, personal anecdotes, reminiscences, etc (R.A.H. Morrow, 1898), by D. M. Kelsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new light on Lord Macaulay (Rockingham press, 1918), by Albert R. Hassard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lord Haliburton a memoir of his public service (W. Briggs, 1909), by J. B. Atlay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir William Gregory, K. C. M. G., formerly member of Parliament and sometime governor of Ceylon. An autobiography. (J. Murray, 1894), by William Henry Gregory and Lady Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chamberlain; a study. (Watts, 1905), by J. M. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and writings of Sir Thomas More, lord chancellor of England and martyr under Henry VIII (Burns & Oates, 1892), by T. E. Bridgett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Richard Cobden (T. Fisher Unwin, 1895), by Richard Cobden, Salis Schwabe, and Julie Salis-Schwabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and death of Thomas Wolsey (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd., 1899), by George Cavendish, Thomas Churchyard, and Frederick Startridge Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II. (George Bell, 1884), by Samuel Pepys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lord George Bentinck : a political biography (Dutton ;, 1905), by Benjamin Disraeli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of the Duke of Wellington. (Rivington, 1884), by Rosamond Waite (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Bright (Blackie ;, 1897), by C. A. Vince and John Bright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The feet of the young men : some candid comments on the rising generation (J.H. Sears, 1928), by Janitor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of the late Right Honorable Charles James Fox : exhibiting a faithful account of the most remarkable events of his political career, and a delineation of his character ... (E. Duyckinck, 1811), by B. C. Walpole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Henry Fawcett (Smith, Elder, & Co., 1885), by Leslie Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political portraits (Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873), by Frank Harrison Hill and A prominent London journalist (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great Lord Burghley (William Cecil) : a study of Elizabethan statecraft (James Nisbet, 1898), by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections (AMS Press, 1978), by John Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lords and commoners (E.P. Dutton, 1921), by Henry W. Lucy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Marlborough (G. Routledge and Sons, 1875), by Charles MacFarlane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs and correspondence of Lyon Playfair (P. M. Pollak ;, 1976), by T. Wemyss Reid and Lyon Playfair (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chatham's colonial policy : a study in the fiscal and economic implications of the colonial policy of the elder Pitt (Porcupine Press, 1980), by Kate Hotblack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Simon de Montfort, comte de Leicester : sa vie (120?-1265), son rôle politique en France et en Angleterre (Slatkine-Megariotis Reprints, 1976), by Charles Bémont (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Burke (Macmillan, 1897), by John Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characters : containing an impartial review of the public conduct and abilities of the most eminent personages in the Parliament of Great-Britain, considered as statesmen, senators, and public speakers. (Printed for J. Bew, in Pater-noster-Row and sold by W. Davis, in Piccadilly ; T. Durham, near Charing-Cross and Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal-Exchange, 1777), by Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Windham papers : the life and correspondence of the Rt. Hon. William Windham, 1750-1810, a member of Pitt's first cabinet and the ministry of "all the talents", including hitherto unpublished letters from George III, the Dukes of York and Gloucester, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Canning ... (Herbert Jenkins, 1913), by William Windham, Lewis Saul Benjamin, and Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Great Lord Burghley: A study in Elizabethan statecraft, by Martin A. S. Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Memory of Gladstone, by Goldwin Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, by George Cavendish, ed. by Samuel Weller Singer, contrib. by George Wyatt (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Wellington, by Harold Wheeler (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ten Tudor Statesmen, by Arthur D. Innes (Gutenberg ebook)
• British Political Leaders, by Justin McCarthy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Burke, by John Morley (Gutenberg ebook)

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