Title: Patronage and piety :
Authors: Quinn, Dermot.
Date: 1993
Publisher: Stanford University Press,
Physical description: xvi, 277 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Abstract: "For English Catholics, the years from 1850 to 1900 were stirring times. Emerging from a long period of social obscurity, they became confident that a 'Second Spring' would bring them to a position of moral authority and influence in Victorian England. Their leaders - Manning and Newman - were figures of the first rank. Their numbers - boosted by Irish immigration - seemed to herald genuine political strength."--BOOK JACKET. "In this lively and well-written study, Dr Quinn examines that confidence and finds it misplaced. He shows how Catholics frequently misread the political signs. Attaching themselves sometimes to the Liberals, sometimes to the Toris, they tended to forget that both parties, in their different ways, found it easier to cultivate anti-Catholicism. At certain times - when the Catholic hierarchy was restored, when the Syllabus of Errors was promulgated, when Gladstone denounced 'Vaticanism' - this anti-Catholicism was virulent. In calmer days, Catholics were usually regarded with sullen suspicion."--BOOK JACKET. "Seeking to examine Catholic political strength, Dr Quinn investigates the careers of leading Catholics such as the Marquis of Ripon and the Duke of Norfolk. He also traces the attitudes of the party leaders, Gladstone and Disraeli especially, to their Catholic followers. He shows how for some lesser Catholics, denomination was regarded as a reason for personal preferment. Finally, he demonstrates how, at constituency level, Catholicism was never the electoral force that many claimed it to be."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: 1. Liberal Catholics and Catholic Liberals 1850-74 -- The Politics of The Rambler -- Acton and Gladstone -- The Syllabus of Errors of 1864 and the General Election of 1865 -- The Vatican Council: 'Frankenstein's Monster' -- Gladstone, Acton, Manning and the Politics of Patronage -- Liberals and Catholics to 1874 -- 2. Catholics and Tories 1850-68: A Natural Alliance? -- The Roots of Catholic Toryism -- The Parliamentary Context of the Catholic-Tory 'Alliance' -- The Catholic Connection: Edward Ryley and Disraeli -- The Catholic Connection: John Pope Hennessy and Disraeli -- 1868 and All That -- 3. Catholics and Tories 1868-74 -- Catholics and Disraeli until the Vatican Council -- Catholics as Patrons and Claimants -- Tory Realism and Catholic Romance: Anti-Catholicism as a Political Tactic -- 4. Lord Ripon: A Catholic in Politics -- The 'Perversion' of Lord Ripon -- Ripon's Early Career -- Ripon's Retreat from Politics -- Ripon's Return to Politics -- Ripon and Election Politics: 1880 -- 5. Catholic Toryism during Disraeli's Second Ministry -- Passion, Patronage and Protestantism -- Foreign Affairs -- The Duke of Norfolk and Sir George Bowyer: Toryism High and Low -- Manning, Disraeli and 'Natural' Toryism -- 6. Ripon: A Catholic in Government -- Indian Interlude -- Cabinet and Election Politics, 1885 -- Cabinet and Election Politics, 1886 -- The Party Catholic -- The Catholic Party? -- 7. The Duke of Norfolk, Catholics and Toryism 1880-1900 -- The Catholic Tory World -- Partisan Politics -- The Duke Used and Abused -- Fin de Siecle -- Appendix: Constituency Catholicism.
Subject headings (LCSH): Catholic Church--England--History--19th century.; Catholic Church--England.; Catholics--England; England--Church history--19th century.; Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.