...banks of deposit. The Committee of 1832 Trying to Improve the Monetary System without Changing the Bank As chancellor of the exchequer and leader of the House of Commons, Lord Althorp, better known for his part in securing the Reform Bill of that year, proposed a committee...

...Tory colleagues, both above him on the poll. Immediately Earl Russell was made premier, with Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons. It had taken him thirty-two years of parliamentary service to reach that height, and he was already...