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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HENRY LORD BROUGHAM
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF |
| Volume: |
Volume 3 |
| By: |
Henry Brougham |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108078435 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108078436 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
27 July, 2014 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century |
| Pages: |
542 |
| Description: |
This three-volume autobiography by Henry Brougham, radical politician and reforming Lord Chancellor, was published posthumously in 1871. |
| Synopsis: |
A child prodigy, Henry Brougham (1778-1868), later Lord Brougham and Vaux, entered in 1792 the University of Edinburgh, where he focused on mathematics and then law, while his amateur scientific studies led him to become a fellow of the Royal Society at the age of twenty-five. Called to both the Scottish and English bars, and moving in radical political circles, he became famous as a defender of free speech, a passionate abolitionist, and co-founder of the Edinburgh Review. After many years as an MP, he was given a peerage in 1830 and became Lord Chancellor in Lord Grey's Whig government, where he was instrumental in the passing of the 1832 Reform Act. This three-volume autobiography was published posthumously in 1871, with additional notes. Volume 3 covers the period of Brougham's chancellorship, and his later career as a radical politician, ending with some pen-portraits of notable contemporaries, including Lords Holland and Palmerston. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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