Algernon West

Algernon West Sir Algernon Edward West Order of the Bath GCB Privy Council (United Kingdom) PC (4 April 1832 – 21 March 1921) was a British civil servant and from 1861 to 1894 the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Quotes It was soon after my first acquaintance with Mr. Gladstone that he told me how impossible it was for a Minister and his secretary adequately to perform their respective duties unless there was established between them such an absolute confidence as in a happy domestic life should exist between a man and his wife. https://books.google.com/books?id=BQkyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA27 27 Recollections, 1832 to 1886 West Sir Algernon 1899 2nd London Smith, Elder, & Company ; vol. 2 of 2 Society, which, at the beginning of the Queen's reign, was strict, formal, and circumscribed, has followed the trend of other things, and taken a hint from commercial legislation. It has entered into an enormous syndicate, under the rules of strictly limited liability. Individualism is stamped out; Collectivism has come in. The rush and rapidity of thought and action, supplemented by all the appliances of modern science, have largely increased. https://books.google.com/books?id=hr1HAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3 3 One City and Many Men West Sir Algernon 1908 3rd London Smith, Elder, & Company Lecky, in his delightful "Map of Life," lays great stress on the advantages of Tact. No doubt it is a splendid asset in a man's character, smoothing his passage through life and leading to success, but I still maintain that work and the love of it is the noblest gift that can be granted and that best repays itself. https://books.google.com/books?id=uj4JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA15 15 Contemporary Portraits: Men of My Day in Public Life West Sir Algernon 1920 London T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd Quotes about Algernon West Sir Algernon West ... is a good, genial gossip, whose recollections cover the whole period of English history that began with the Reform Act 1832 Reform Act. He was private secretary to Mr. Gladstone during his first Prime Ministership. ... He is a fervent Gladstonian, whose idolatry of his chief is quite refreshing in these days, in which the memory of this great man is the mark for so many cynical sneers. Some Notable Books of the Month by W. T. Stead https://books.google.com/books?id=KWhPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA75 Review of Reviews for Australasia 61 75–78 January 15, 1900 (quote from p. 75) External links Sir Algernon Edward West Category:1832 births Category:1921 deaths Category:Civil servants Category:Liberal Party (UK) politicians Category:Memoirists Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:University of Oxford alumni