Abstract
Abstract On 14 January 1875 William Ewart Gladstone met most of the members of the Liberal Cabinet defeated at the general election in February 1874 and told them of his resignation of the Liberal leadership. His announcement was immediately made public in an exchange of letters with Lord Granville being Liberal leader in the House of Lords and Lord Hartington being Liberal leader in the House of Commons. The party of progress was thus led by a peer in each House. This was an awkward basis for its leadership, and one made more awkward by the fact that Gladstone did not resign his Greenwich seat, though he did sell his London house, 11 Carlton House Terrace, in March 1875.
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