SHAFTESBURY, THE GREAT REFORMER
By Richard Turnbull
Lion Hudson. 255 pages. £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7459 5348 9
Wycliffe Hall Principal Dr. Richard Turnbull’s biography of the Anglican evangelical statesman, the Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), is a tremendous education.
It is erudite and lucid not only about its subject, whom Foreign Secretary William Hague has described as ‘one of our most effective and successful politicians’, but also about the political and religious ferments of Victorian Britain.
