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He was a great reader, with a special interest in science. Hunting, shooting and fishing were a closed book to him along with horse-racing, cricket and sport of any kind, but he would play an occasional game of billiards. For his health in his last years he rode a tricycle, with a footman along to push him up hills.
He was seventy, his health was failing and both his doctors and his colleagues pressed him to give up the foreign office.
The civil service is no longer a unified service and major inroads have been made to the 'career' nature of the civil service. Reforms between gave managers in both government departments and agencies much greater freedom to recruit their own staff and decide on their pay and grading. When the Czarist government failed to do so, they revolted for the first time in and then for the second time in , by which Czardom was finally overthrown. Want to read the rest? Sign up to view the whole essay and download the PDF for anytime access on your computer, tablet or smartphone.
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