TEMPLE, Henry John, 3rd Visct. Palmerston [I] (1784-1865), of Broadlands, nr. Romsey, Hants and 9 Great Stanhope Street, Mdx.

Palmerston’s pprs., some of which are accessible at www.archives.soton.ac.uk/palmerston, form part of the Broadlands mss at Southampton Univ. Lib. These were partly printed in Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer (Lord Dalling), Life of Henry John Temple, Visct. Palmerston, 5 vols. (1870-6) [hereafter cited as Bulwer]; following Dalling’s death, the last three volumes of this work were edited and written by the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, who prepared a revised and enlarged edition, Life and Corresp. of Henry John Temple, Visct. Palmerston, 2 vols. (1879) [hereafter cited as Ashley]. P. Guedalla’s influential but romanticized portrait, Palmerston (1926) and H.C.F. Bell’s workmanlike Lord Palmerston, 2 vols. (1936), were echoed in a number of routine 20th century biographies, to which D. Southgate’s study, ‘The Most English Minister’: The Politics and Policies of Palmerston (1966), was a worthy companion. J. Ridley’s generally reliable Lord Palmerston (1972 edn.) has been superseded by the most recent life, J. Chambers, Palmerston: ‘The People’s Darling’ (2004); while, as a basic introduction, M. Chamberlain, Lord Palmerston (1987) is preferable to P.R. Ziegler, Palmerston (2003). For the first half of his career, the authoritative account is K. Bourne, Palmerston, The Early Years, 1784-1841 (1982), which is much relied on here; as, for his diplomacy, is Sir C. Webster, Foreign Policy of Palmerston, 1830-1841: Britain, the Liberal Movement and the Eastern Question, 2 vols. (1951).