1. Cabinet, reform of, 1, 2
  2. Cairns, Hugh McCalmont, 1st Lord, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n , 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19;
    1. Lord Chancellor, 1, 2, 3;
    2. helps D with 1874 election address, 1;
    3. an Evangelical, 1, 2;
    4. judgment most respected by D, 1;
    5. and Suez Canal purchase, 1, 2, 3;
    6. shares control of foreign policy, 1;
    7. would like touch of sentiment in D, 1;
    8. last discussion with, 1
  3. Cairo, 1, 2
  4. Calais, 1, 2
  5. Calamities of Authors (D’Israeli), 1
  6. Cambridge, George, 2nd Duke of, 1, 2
  7. Cambridge, Duchess of, 1
  8. Campbell, John, 1st Baron, 1n
  9. Cane, Mrs, Palmerston’s escapade with, 1
  10. Canning, Charles John, 1st Earl, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  11. Canning, George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n ;
    1. Peel’s relations with, 1, 2, 3;
    2. and Holy Alliance, 1;
    3. ‘activist’, 1;
    4. Eastern policy, 1
  12. Canning, Sir Stratford, 1
  13. Canton, 1
  14. Cape Colony, 1, 2, 3, 4
  15. Captain , HMS, 1
  16. Carden, Sir Robert, 1, 2
  17. Cardigan, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of, 1
  18. Cardigan, Lady (Adeline de Horsey), 1
  19. Cardoso family, 1
  20. Cardwell, Edward (later Viscount), 1, 2, 3;
    1. army reforms, 1, 2, 3, 4
  21. Carlton Club, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. D elected to, 1;
    2. meeting on household suffrage, 1
  22. Carlyle, Thomas, 1, 2;
    1. influence of, 1, 2, 3;
    2. refuses GCB, 1
  23. Carnarvon, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of, 1, 2, 3n , 4, 5, 6;
  24. Colonial Secretary, 1;
    1. cautious over Reform, 1, 2, 3;
    2. revolt of, 1, 2;
    3. resigns, 1;
    4. Colonial Secretary again, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    5. refuses Indian Viceroyalty, 1;
    6. and Eastern question, 1, 2, 3, 4;
    7. suspicious of D, 1;
    8. imprudent speech, 1;
    9. resigns, 1, 2, 3;
    10. and federation, 1;
    11. supports D after 1880 defeat, 1
  25. Carrington, 1st Baron, 1n , 2n
  26. Carrington, 2nd Baron, 1, 2
  27. Carrington, 3rd Baron, 1
  28. Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1
  29. Castlereagh, Frederick Stewart, Viscount, 1
  30. Castlereagh, Viscount, statesman, 1
  31. Catholic emancipation, 1, 2, 3
  32. Cattle Plague compensation, 1
  33. Cavagnari, Sir Louis, 1, 2
  34. Cavendish-Bentinck, Mrs (Baroness Bolsover), 1
  35. Cavour, Count, 1
  36. Cawnpore, 1
  37. Cecil, Lord David, on D’s novels, 1
  38. Cecil, Lady Gwendolen, 1, 2, 3, 4
  39. Cecil, Lord Robert Gascoyne-(later Lord Cranborne, later 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, qq.v.), 1, 2;
    1. his Quarterly article on D, 1
    2. Cento, 1;
    3. birthplace of D’s grandfather, 1, 2
  40. Central Agricultural Protection Society, 1, 2
  41. Cetewayo, Zulu Chief, 1, 2, 3, 4
  42. Chamberlain, Joseph, 1, 2, 3, 4
  43. Chamberlain, General Sir Neville, 1, 2, 3
  44. Chamberlain, Neville, 1, 2
  45. Champneys, William, Dean of Lichfield, 1
  46. Chandos, Richard Chandos Grenville, Lord (later 2nd Duke of Buckingham, q.v.), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  47. Chandos, Richard Grenville, Lord (later 3rd Duke of Buckingham, q.v.), 1
  48. Charles 1, 2, 3
  49. Charleville, Lady, 1
  50. Chartism (Carlyle), 1
  51. Chartists, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  52. Chatham, 1
  53. Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of, 1, 2n , 3
  54. Chelmsford, Frederick Thesiger, 1st Baron: Lord Chancellor, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. his clerical appointments, 1;
    2. unwilling retirement, 1
  55. Chelmsford, Frederick Thesiger, 2nd Baron, and Isandhlwana, 1;
    1. crushes Cetewayo and resigns, 1; 
    2. D’s harshness towards, 1, 2
  56. Chequers Court, 1
  57. Chesham, 1st Baron, 1
  58. Chesterfield, Lady, 1;
    1. D’s letters to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n , 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17;
    2. at his last dinner party, 1
  59. Cheveley or the Man of Honour (Rosina Bulwer), 1
  60. Chiefswood (Lockhart’s house), 1, 2n
  61. Childers, Hugh, 1, 2
  62. Children’s Employment Commission, Second Report of (1842), 1
  63. Christopher, R. A., 1, 2, 3
  64. Church, Richard, Dean of St Paul’s, 1
  65. Church of England, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
    1. D a practising member of, 1, 2;
    2. D’s theory of, as ‘main remedial agency’, 1, 2, 3;
    3. and ‘Papal Aggression’, 1, 2;
    4. High, Low and Broad parties in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
    5. D’s attempt to rouse Protestant feeling in, 1;
    6. his use of patronage, 1, 2;
    7. Evangelicals in, 1, 2, 3, 4;
    8. ‘Bill to put down Ritualism’, 1;
    9. attitude to Bulgarian atrocities, 1, 2, 3, 4
  66. Church in its Relations with the Stale, The (Gladstone), 1
  67. Church Times , 1
  68. Churchill, Lord Randolph, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  69. Churchill, Sir Winston, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  70. City of Glasgow Bank failure, 1
  71. Clanricarde, 1st Marquis of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  72. Clare, Lord, 1
  73. Clarence House, 1
  74. Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of, 1
  75. Clarendon, George Villiers, 4th Earl of, 1, 2, 3, 4;
    1. suggested Prime Minister, 1, 2
  76. Clark, Dr Kitson, 1n
  77. Clarke, Sir Edward, 1
  78. Clay, James, 1, 2, 3;
    1. with D on Near East tour, 1, 2;
    2. in Parliament, 1;
    3. and 1867 Reform Bill, 1, 2
  79. Clerkenwell jail, 1
  80. Cleveland, Harry George Vane, 4th Duke of, 1, 2
  81. Clifton, 1, 2
  82. ‘Club, The’, 1
  83. Cobden, Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. and Corn Law repeal, 1, 2;
    2. on ‘higher classes’, 1, 2;
    3. in Endy mion , 1
  84. Cockburn, Sir Alexander, 1
  85. Codrington, Sir William and Lady Georgiana, 1
  86. Cogan, Rev. Eli, 1, 2
  87. Colburn, Henry, 1, 2, 3;
    1. publishes Vivian Grey , 1, 2;
    2. his ‘puffing’ methods, 1, 2, 3;
    3. publishes Young Duke , 1;
    4. publishes Henrietta Temple , 1
  88. Colchester, 2nd Baron, 1
  89. Coleridge, J. T., 1
  90. Coleridge, S. T., 1
  91. Coleridge, Rev. W. H., 1
  92. Colinton, 1
  93. Collier, Robert Porrett, 1st Baron Monkswell, 1
  94. Cologne, 1
  95. Colombian Mining Association, 1
  96. colonial representation, D’s proposal for, 1
  97. Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles I (D’Israeli), 1, 2
  98. Compensation for Disturbance Bill (Ireland) (1880), 1, 2, 3
  99. compounder franchise, 1, 2, 3, 4
  100. Compounding Act (1869), 1, 2
  101. Coningsby (D), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n , 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
    1. school friendship in, 1, 2;
    2. Lockhart calls ‘blackguard novel’, 1;
    3. party hacks satirized in, 1, 2, 3;
    4. Smythe as hero of, 1;
    5. dedicated to Henry Hope, 1n ;
    6. written at Deepdene, 1n , 2;
    7. the first English political novel, 1;
    8. Peel’s Conservatism analysed in, 1, 2, 3;
    9. sales of, 1;
    10. D’s propagandist purpose in, 1, 2;
    11. his political ideas in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    12. attack on Conservatism, 1, 2;
    13. key scene in, 1;
    14. views on race and religion, 1;
    15. paradoxes of, 1;
    16. portrays ‘the eternal dilemma of polities’, 1;
    17. superior to Tancred , 1;
    18. Eton scenes in, 1;
    19. its style, 1;
    20. rivals Lothair , 1
  102. Connaught, Prince Arthur, Duke of, 1, 2
  103. Conservative Central Office, 1, 2, 3, 4
  104. Conservative Constitutional Working Men’s Associations, National Union of, 1
  105. Conspiracy and Protection of Property Bill (1875), 1
  107. Conspiracy to Murder Bill (1858), 1
  108. Constable, Archibald, 1
  109. Constantinople, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
    1. as ‘Key to India’, 1, 2, 3, 4;
    2. Russian threat to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
    3. D sends fleet to, 1;
    4. Tsar anxious to occupy, 1
  110. Constantinople Conference (1876), 1, 2, 3;
    1. failure of, 1
  111. Contarini Fleming (D), 1n , 2, 3n , 4, 5, 6;
    1. schoolboy life portrayed in, 1, 2;
    2. D self-portrait in, 1, 2, 3;
    3. regarded by D as his best, 1;
    4. a failure, 1, 2
  112. Contemporary Review , 1, 2
  113. Cookesley, Rev. W. G., 1
  114. Copleston, Dr Edward, 1
  115. Copley, Miss (Lyndhurst’s daughter), 1
  116. Corfu, 1
  117. Corinth, 1
  118. Cork, Lady, 1, 2, 3
  119. Corn Laws, 1, 2, 3, 4;
    1. ridiculed in Popanilla , 1;
    2. D defends (1838), 1;
    3. repeal of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
    4. Peel’s changed attitude to, 1, 2;
    5. his proposals to repeal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    6. debates on, 1, 2, 3;
    7. Conservative split over, 1;
    8. agitation for reimposition, 1
  120. Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill: (1868) 1, 2;
    1. (1880) 1, 2
  121. Corry, Henry, 1, 2;
    1. First Lord of Admiralty, 1, 2
  122. Cony, Montague (later 1st Baron Rowton, q.v.), 1n , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;
    1. first meets D, 1;
    2. becomes private secretary, 1, 2, 3;
    3. ‘model of secretaries’, 1;
    4. works on Reform Bill statistics, 1;
    5. ‘in fact Prime Minister’, 1;
    6. story of Suez Canal purchase, 1;
    7. ‘no substitute for’, 1;
    8. illness, 1, 2;
    9. declines numerous posts, 1;
    10. ‘fitted to fill any Cabinet office’, 1;
    11. peerage, 1;
    12. negotiates publication of Endymion , 1, 2;
    13. takes sister abroad, 1, 2;
    14. and D’s last days, 1;
    15. at funeral, 1;
    16. literary executor, 1;
    17. D’s true heir, 1;
    18. considered for Berlin embassy, 1;
    19. D’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  123. Cottenham, 1st Earl of, 1
  124. Cotton, Sir John Hynde, 1
    1. county franchise, 1, 2, 3;
    2. reduction of occupation qualification, 1, 2;
    3. ratal value instead of rental, 1, 2, 3;
    4. redistribution of seats, 1
  125. Cowley, Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  126. Cowling, Maurice, 1n
  127. Cranborne, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount (later 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, q.v.), 1, 2, 3, 4n , 5, 6, 7;
    1. Indian Secretary, 1;
    2. cautious over Reform, 1, 2, 3, 4;
    3. revolt of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    4. resigns, 1, 2;
    5. attacks D and Derby in Quarterly , 1;
    6. refuses office under D, 1;
    7. and Irish Church, 1;
    8. succeeds father, 1;
    9. attitude to D, 1
    10. See also as Cecil, Lord Robert
  128. Cranbrook, 1st Earl of (formerly Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, q.v.), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. Indian Secretary, 1, 2, 3;
    2. and Afghan crisis, 1, 2, 3
  129. Crichel, 1
  130. Crimean War, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
  131. Crisis Examined by Disraeli, The Younger (D), 1
  132. Critical Biography, A (Francis), 1
  133. Croker, John Wilson, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  134. Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of, 1
  135. Cronstadt, 1
  136. Cross, Richard Assheton, 1st Viscount, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
    1. Home Secretary, 1, 2;
    2. disappointed at D’s lack of initiative, 1;
    3. jingle about, 1n ;
    4. social reforms, 1, 2, 3;
    5. as election speaker, 1, 2n
  137. Crown – see monarchy
  138. Crucifix (racehorse), 1
  139. Crypt, The (antiquarian magazine), 1
  140. Crystal Palace, 1;
    1. D’s 1872 speech at, 1, 2, 3
  141. Cumberland, Ernest Augustus, Duke of (King of Hanover), 1, 2, 3, 4
  142. Curiosities of Literature (D’Israeli), 1, 2, 3, 4
  143. Curzon, Lord and Lady, 1
  144. Curzon Street (No. 19): D’s lease of, 1, 2;
    1. first and only dinner party at, 1;
    2. his illness and death at, 1
  145. Cyprus, 1, 2, 3, 4;
  146. Convention (1878), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5