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  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brougham conducted the lengthened inquiry which took place at the bar of the House, and he displayed on this occasion a mastery over the principles of political economy and international law which at that time was rare.
From that time, Brougham, in conjunction with Samuel Whitbread, became one of the Princess's chief advisers; he was attached to her through an indignant sense of the wrongs and insults inflicted upon her by her husband.
Brougham's first act was to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the representation of the people; but before the debate came on the government was defeated on another question; the Duke resigned, and Lord Grey was commanded by King William IV to form an administration.
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 Henry Peter Brougham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Henry Peter Brougham was born in Edinburgh on 19 September 1778 and died at Cannes on 7 May 1868.
Although Brougham had a philosophically based education, most of his writings and speeches are either historical or concerned with social policies and their application.
Brougham’s criticism of the law of libel was that, in fact, truth is ‘materially connected with malicious intent or its absence’.
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 Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux.
Brougham took up the fight against the slave trade and opposed the restrictions on trade with the Continent.
In 1820 he won popular renown as chief attorney to Queen Caroline (see Caroline of Brunswick), and in the next decade he became a liberal leader in the House of Commons.
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 HENRY BROUGHAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (September 19, 1778 - May 7, 1868), lord chancellor of England, was born at Edinburgh.
Brougham strongly opposed her departure from England in 1814, as well as her return in 1820 on the accession of George IV.
Brougham's first act was to move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the representation of the people; but before the debate came on the government was defeated on another question; the duke resigned, and Earl Grey was commanded by William IV to form an administration.
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 Henry Brougham
Henry Brougham, the son of Henry and Eleanora Brougham, landowners in Westmorland, was born in Edinburgh on 19th September, 1778.
Henry, was extremely intelligent and was accepted as a student at Edinburgh University at the age of 14.
Henry Brougham continued to work as a lawyer and in August 1812 he defended thirty-eight handloom weavers who had been arrested by Joseph Nadin, Deputy Constable of Manchester, while trying to form a trade union.
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 Baron Brougham and Vaux - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Baron Brougham and Vaux is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It was first created in 1830 for Henry Brougham so that he could sit in the House of Lords and serve as Lord Chancellor.
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868)
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 Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux --  Encyclopædia Britannica
1838) by Henry (later Baron) Brougham, a former lord chancellor of England, it had a low coupé body, appearing as if the front were cut away, that enclosed one forward-facing seat for two passengers; a coachman's seat was attached to the front, where a third passenger could also ride.
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 Baron Brougham and Vaux -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Baron Brougham and Vaux is a title in the (additional info and facts about Peerage of the United Kingdom) Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It was first created in 1830 for Henry Brougham so that he could sit in the (The upper house of the British parliament) House of Lords and serve as (The highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords) Lord Chancellor.
In 1860, he was given a second barony of the same name, but with a special remainder to his brother William.
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 Overview of Henry Peter Brougham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Born in Edinburgh, Brougham was the grand-nephew of William Robertson (1721-93), the Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
Brougham was educated at the High School in Edinburgh and the University there.
Brougham went on to serve as Lord Chancellor between 1830 and 1834.
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 Henry Peter Brougham Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As a member of Parliament, one of a circle of bright Edinburgh Whig lawyers, Brougham advocated electoral reform and popular education.
Brougham had wide-ranging scientific and literary interests; he was a founder of the Edinburgh Review, 1802, the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1825, and London University, 1828.
Correspondence and notes of Henry Peter Brougham, baron Brougham and Vaux, lord chancellor, legal reformer, literary figure.
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 HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1ST BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1ST BARON BROUGHAM AND ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1ST BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1ST BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX
He was the eldest son of Henry Brougham and Eleanora, daughter of the Rev. James Syme.
See: HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1ST BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX at LoveToKnow.
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 NPG 999; The House of Lords, 1820, The Trial of Queen Caroline (also includes Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham ...
Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854), Field Marshal; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), Lord Chancellor.
Other prominent figures are Caroline herself, Henry Brougham her lawyer and the Duke of Wellington, standing under the left hand balcony.
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He was a supporter of a number of liberal causes including free trade, the abolition of slavery, electoral reform and state education.
Brougham spoke in favour of Jewish emancipation in the House of Commons.
Brougham is mentioned in Louise de Rothschild's diary.
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 AllRefer.com - Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, British And Irish History, Biographies
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux[brOOm, vOz, vOks] Pronunciation Key, 1778–1868, British statesman, b.
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 Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Brougham, Henry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Author Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.
Title Analytical view of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia, by Henry Lord Brougham and E. Routh.
Note Attributed to Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux.
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 AIM25: University College London: Brougham Papers: William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux, correspondence and ...
A large series of c10,000 letters to William Brougham from c1,500 organisations and individuals outside the Brougham family, among them aristocrats, including members of the Edwardes family, Barons Kensington, and of the Lowther family, Earls of Lonsdale; churchmen; and some political figures.
A series of letters to William from his brother Henry, 1813-1860 and undated, on wide-ranging subjects, among them family finances and property, including Henry's property at Cannes; personal news of relations and acquaintances and their health; William's early studies and Henry's career; political news; and their activities, whereabouts and travels.
Each letter to William from Henry Brougham is separately indexed in the Brougham card index at UCL, with a note of date and summary of content.
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 Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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An 18th-century English poet and composer of musical farces (short comic plays) and songs, Henry Carey is best known for “Sally in Our Alley.” The ballad appeared in a collection of Carey's poems set to music in 1737.
Henry Wriothesley, to whom Shakespeare dedicated two poems, was one of the writer's first patrons.
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 henry more
Henry More (1614 - September 1, 1687) was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.
Both his parents were Calvinists but he himself "could never swallow that hard doctrine." In 1631 he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, at about the time John Milton was leaving it.
He was a prolific writer of verse and in prose, but his works are now little known, except the Divine Dialogues (1688), a treatise which condenses his general view of philosophy and religion.
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 UCL Library Services -- Special Collections Library
Correspondence and papers of Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868),Lord Chancellor 1830-1834.
There are also papers relating to the Brougham estates in Westmorland, and to Henry Brougham's estate in Cannes.
A name index to the papers of Henry Brougham is available at Special Collections, giving a summary of the contents of each letter.
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 Henry Peter, Lord Brougham. 1778-1868. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The title given by Lord Brougham to a book published in 1830.
Brougham delivered a very warm panegyric upon the ex-Chancellor, and expressed a hope that he would make a good end, although to an expiring Chancellor death was now armed with a new terror.—Thomas Campbell: Lives of the Chancellors, vol.
Lord St. Leonards attributes this phrase to Sir Charles Wetherell, who used it on the occasion referred to by Lord Campbell.
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 Brigham Brougham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Cannes 11: ponsible for Cannes' growth is Lord Henry Peter Brougham (1778 - 1868).
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 Peter Vaux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Speech of Lord Brougham upon the criminal code, in the House of lords, on Monday, the 13th of May, 1844
Henry, Lord Brougham & Vaux: A critical biography
Practical observations upon the education of the people, addressed to the working classes and their employers.
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 AIM25: University College London: BROUGHAM PAPERS
Administrative/Biographical history: Members of the Brougham family of Brougham, Westmorland, included Henry, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), who served as Lord Chancellor, 1830-1834; James (1780-1833); John Waugh (1785-1829); and William, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux (1795-1886).
They came into the possession of the Orthological Institute in 1938 and, then comprising 20 packing cases, were sold at Sotheby's in 1939 by the 4th Lord Brougham and bought by C K Ogden.
An article by C K Ogden in Psyche, xviii (1938-1952), pp 127-204, details the history of Brougham's papers, Brougham's composition of his memoirs, and his brother William's involvement after Henry's death.
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 World of Quotes - Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux) Quotes.
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 Brougham Rv   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
1) " Brougham" -- in the term Brougham Rv Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 35: e of the project.
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While RVs are intended for brief leisure activities such as vacations and camping, some people, especially retirees, live in their units and are known as fulltimers.
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