Born in 1838; graduated from Oxford in 1859; editor of the
_Fortnightly Review_ in 1867, and of _The Pall Mall Gazette_
in 1880; elected to Parliament in 1883; made Chief Secretary
for Ireland in 1886, and again in 1892; made Secretary for
India in 1906; published "Edmund Burke" in 1867; "Voltaire"
in 1872; "Rousseau" in 1876; a "Life of Richard Cobden" in
1881; and a "Life of Gladstone" in 1904.