Your help needed: Lord Rosebery and his "lonely furrow"

[zowie86]

Would anyone here kind enough to tell me the relationship between Lord Rosebery and his "lonely furrow"?


I don't have much knowledge about the English history, :redface:







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[Frankie Anne]

The term "to pough a lone furrow" means to do something alone without the help of others.

[Paulclem]

There may be a sexual conotation in ploughing a furrow, but without further context, it is unclear.

[Whifflingpin]

http://www.archive.org/stream/fiftyyearsofbrit008977mbp/fiftyyearsofbrit008977mbp_djvu.txt
FIFTY YEARS OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT
"Nothing in the end came of this invitation; for though Lord Rosebery continued to make sporadic incursions into the field of controversy, not always in support of those who were called " Liberal Imperialists ", he was for the most part content (in his own phrase) to " plough his furrow alone ", and never rejoined the councils of the Liberal Party; in which it is clear that at this time Campbell-Bannerman would readily have yielded him the first place. "

Rosebury was a leading Liberal politician in the later C19th -Prime Minister in 1894/5 - but drifted away from the majority of his party, frequently criticising them, over the next twenty years. He remained an active member of the House of Lords, but more or less isolated and without any party affiliation.

[zowie86]

Thank you very much, Whifflingpin. :nod:


Thanks also go to Frankie Anne.