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THE LIFE OF HENRY BROUGHAM TO 1830

by Chester W. New

Published by Oxford University Press. 1st. 1961

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, PC, FRS was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and played a prominent role in passing the Reform Act 1832 and Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis portrait. xi and 458 pages including index.

Minor foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents otherwise clean. Blue dustwrapper is foxed, lightly browned to spine with some heavier foxing.

Stock no. 1831171

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Contents

  • Henry Brougham. Reproduced by kind permission, from the portrait by Gambardella in Lincoln's Inn, London.
  • I. Childhood and Youth
  • II. Barrister without Remuneration: the Founding of the Edinburgh Review
  • III. Crusading against the Slave Trade
  • IV. Whig or Tory? 1804-7: Attack on the Orders in Council, 1808
  • V. Rousing Byron: The Quarterly Review: Parliament at Last
  • VI. Repealing the Orders in Council: The Liverpool Election
  • VII. Adviser to the Princess of Wales
  • VIII. The Two Princesses
  • IX. The Cause of the Slaves, 1807-20
  • X. Political and Personal, 1812-15
  • XI. Political and Personal, 1816-19
  • XII. Schools for All, 1810-19
  • XIII. The Queen's Trial
  • XIV. Political and Personal, 1821-5
  • XV. Fighting to Free the Slaves, 1822-9
  • XVI. Political and Personal, 1826-9
  • XVII. The March of the Mind: Mechanics' Institutes
  • XVIII. Lord Rector of Glasgow: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: The Schoolmaster is Abroad
  • XIX. Launching London University, I
  • XX. Launching London University, II
  • XXI. Law Reform Speech of 1828
  • XXII. The Year 1830
  • Appendix: Brougham's Articles in the Edinburgh Review
  • Bibliographical Note
  • Bibliographical Index of Short Titles
  • General Index

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