Whigs:-- Characteristics of (1853), i. 446. Coalition of Peelites with (1853), i. 443 _et seq._ Defeat of (1841), i. 237; ii. 203 _note 2_, 264. Finance of, i. 458, 459. Fusion of seceders with tory party, i. 139. Influence of, till 1868, iii. 293. Name of, discussed, 422. Opposition of, to Peel (1835), composition of, i. 419-420 _and note_. Protectionist combination with, i. 290.
Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop (of Winchester), advice to Gladstone, i. 150-151; on marriage question, i. 569; advocates revival of convocation, ii. 162; on rise of Disraeli, ii. 230; archbishopric of York desired for, by Gladstone, ii. 430; death of, ii. 459; Gladstone's estimate of, 460; _Life_ of, ii. 597; Gladstone's estimate of, i. 227; ii. 460; his estimate of Gladstone's position, ii. 134, 171; Gladstone's letters to, i. 387; ii. 149, 159, 162; otherwise mentioned, i. 568; ii. 183, 423, 534; iii. 96 _note_.
---- William, Gladstone's meeting with, i. 12; emancipation views of, i. 104; Gladstone's estimate of, i. 106-107; Peel's view of, i. 150; otherwise mentioned, i. 23, 213, 236.
William I., Emperor, on Russell's despatch, ii. 16; interviews with Benedetti, ii. 330-331, 333 _note_; San Juan boundary question referred to, ii. 405.
---- IV., King, Melbourne government dismissed by, i. 118 _and note_; death of, i. 140; perversity of, i. 144; otherwise mentioned, i. 103; iii. 653.
_William George Ward and the Oxford Movement_, i. 313 _note 2_.
Wiseman, Cardinal, i. 173, 174, 318, 408.
Wolseley, Lord, in South Africa (1879), iii. 25-26, 31 _note 2_; defeats Arabi at Tel-el-Kebir, iii. 83; at Gordon's send-off, iii. 150 and _note_; advises preparations for relief expedition, iii. 163; appointed to command, iii. 164-165; asks reinforcement, iii. 178; position of, 179; cited, ii. 360.
Wolverton, Lord, at Hawarden, ii. 474; letter on leadership, ii. 601-602; Gladstone's reply, ii. 602; discusses leadership with Gladstone, ii. 616-617; at Hawarden (June 1885), iii. 196; otherwise mentioned, ii. 462, 463, 485, 493, 563, 564, 584; iii. 102.
---- General Sir E., on South Africa, iii. 37-41; on General Gordon, iii. 149.
Woods and forests dismissal case, i. 520.
Wordsworth, Charles, Bishop of St. Andrews, i. 50, 74, 329.