John Morley: “It has been a special joy of this December that our son Stephen is given to the church, “whose shoe latchet I am not…”

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.