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	Richard Cobden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Cobden (June 3, 1804 – April 2, 1865) was an a British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League.
		Cobden was thus relegated to private life, and retiring to his country house at Dunford, he spent his time in perfect contentment in cultivating his land and feeding his pigs.
		Cobden had married in 1840 Miss Catherine Anne Williams, a Welsh lady, and left five surviving daughters, of whom Mrs Cobden-Unwin (wife of the publisher Mr Fisher Unwin), Mrs Walter Sickert (wife of the painter) and Mrs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Cobden (3755 words)

	Richard Cobden: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cobden was born at a farmhouse called Dunford, near Midhurst (additional info and facts about Midhurst), in Sussex (A former Anglo-Saxon kingdom in southern England on the English Channel; was captured by Wessex in the 9th century).
		When Cobden returned from abroad, he addressed himself to what seemed to him the logical complement of free trade, namely, the promotion of peace (The state prevailing during the absence of war) and the reduction of naval and military armaments.
		Cobden's efforts in furtherance of free trade were always subordinated to what he deemed the highest moral purposes - the promotion of peace on earth and goodwill among men.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_cobden.htm (3563 words)

	Richard Cobden (1804-1865)
		Cobden was the only man ever to beat Peel in debate in parliament and in 1846 Peel acknowledged Cobden's role in the repeal of the Corn Laws.He refused to merge the Anti-Corn-Law League with wider programmes of reform because he saw the advantages of a single policy, and saw the appeal to new industrial areas.
		Richard Cobden, statesman, was born on 3 June 1804, in an old farmhouse in the hamlet of Heyshott, near Midhurst, on the western border of Sussex.
		Cobden's pamphlet, passing over all discussion of the origin of the war, was a plea, backed by a heavy array of economic and military facts, against the imposition on Russia of humiliating terms of peace.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/terrace/adw03/peel/people/cobden.htm (4280 words)

	MSN Encarta - Richard Cobden
		Richard Cobden (1804-65), British economist and statesman, known as the Apostle of Free Trade.
		Cobden was born in Sussex, England, June 3, 1804.
		Cobden successfully stood for election to Parliament in 1841 to work for repeal of the duties, which was effected in 1846.
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	Global Growth Org \| Richard Cobden - Crusader for Free Trade and Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Richard Cobden was arguably the most influential nineteenth-century British politician never to have held office under the Crown.
		Indeed, Cobden was at the heart of a network of radical reformers with interests ranging from free trade to constitutional reform and the preservation of religious liberty.
		Cobden himself became lastingly associated with free trade which he believed would maximise popular welfare and create bonds of peace between nations, part of an optimistic view of divine harmony which he shared with continental liberals such as Frédéric Bastiat.
	www.global-growth.org /cobden.htm (1112 words)

	Richard Cobden
		In 1837 Richard Cobden became a member of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and joined Thomas Potter and John Shuttleworth in the agitation that resulted in Manchester achieving a democratically elected local council.
		Cobden recruited a number of talented speakers to the movement, the most important of which was John Bright, who at that time was Britain's most successful orators.
		Richard Cobden was now a national hero but because he had neglected his business in Manchester he was now deeply in debt.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRcobden.htm (947 words)

	ipedia.com: Richard Cobden Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cobden was born at a farmhouse called Dunford, near Midhurst, in Sussex, England.
		He died when his son Richard was a child, and the care of the family devolved upon the mother, who was a woman of strong sense and of great energy of character, and who, after her husband's death, left Dunford and returned to Midhurst.
		The work of Cobden, and what is now called "Cobdenism," has in recent years been subjected to much criticism from the newer school of English economists who advocate a "national policy" (on the old lines of Alexander Hamilton and Friedrich List) as against his cosmopolitan ideals.
	www.ipedia.com /richard_cobden.html (4196 words)

	Cobden, The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, Front Matter: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Cobden acted consistently on principle, and we may rest assured that he would have granted the extension of the suffrage, even if he could have foreseen that the democracy would use it to their own disadvantage.
		Cobden entered Parliament, not, as is the fate of most of our public men, to support a party, to play, for office, or to educate himself for professional statesmanship, still less to gratify personal vanity or to acquire social importance, but as the representative of distinct principles, and of a great cause.
		Cobden belonged to the school of political thinkers who believe in the perfect harmony of moral and economical laws, and that in proportion as these are recognised, understood, and obeyed by nations, will be their advance in all that constitutes civilisation.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Cobden/cbdPW0.html (9544 words)

	Cobden's biography
		Richard Cobden (1804-1865) was born at Dunford, near Midhurst, Sussex on 3 June 1804 and died in London on 2 April 1865.
		Cobden's attack on what he saw as the local example of feudal governance was followed by his taking up the leadership of Manchester's campaign against the Corn Laws, which he saw as the outstanding bastion of aristocratic self-interest within the British state.
		The Cobden Club, set up in 1866, was devoted to the defence and diffusion of his ideas, while many of his supporters remained influential within the British Liberal party and abroad, for example, David Wells in the United States or Henry Parkes in Australia.
	www.lse.ac.uk /collections/cobdenLetters/biography.htm (1300 words)

	Richard Cobden - reformer
		By 1839 Cobden had formed a new, national Anti-Corn Law League and the campaign that followed was, as Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel acknowledged, influential in the eventual repeal of the laws in 1846.
		Cobden had been elected Stockport's MP in 1841 and had carried on the campaign in Parliament.
		Cobden had long been an advocate of free trade, believing it was vital if the major powers were to avoid war, and at the request of Chancellor William Gladstone he brokered a trade treaty with France.
	www.cottontimes.co.uk /cobdeno.htm (496 words)

	Encyclopedia: Richard Cobden
		Cobden, who had travelled in Turkey, and had studied the condition of that country with great care for many years, discredited the outcry about maintaining the independence and integrity of the Ottoman empire which was the battle-cry of the day.
		Richard Cobden began his public life by leaving his calico printing company to his brother.
		Cobden made a name-by-name check of the opposition petition and found that 70 percent were invalid.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Cobden (478 words)

	Richard Cobden: Activist for Peace
		Cobden saw that free trade was the key to material prosperity, as evidenced by England's economic growth and rise to world leadership in virtually all aspects of trade—finance, insurance, shipping, etc.—after the Corn Law repeal.
		Further, Cobden saw free trade as the basis of peace, rather than government controlled trade, which often led to war, and to the moral and economic harm of people.
		Richard Cobden knew that at the center of free trade was freedom; freedom that required sharply limiting government, and which produced justice by preventing government sponsored theft by one group from others.
	www.geocities.com /rationalargumentator/Cobden.html (950 words)

	Richard Cobden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Richard Cobden was born in 1804 into a farming family at Heyshott in Middlesex
		In 1819 Cobden went to work in his uncle's warehouse in London where he proved to be an adept clerk and salesman.
		Cobden did not hold Cabinet office although in 1860 he was responsible for arranging a commercial treaty with France.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/cobden.html (358 words)

	Knowledge Problem: RICHARD COBDEN
		Cobden and his Quaker friend John Bright founded the Anti-Corn-Law League, which fought the protectionist legislation put into place to restrict wheat imports after Napoleon's Channel blockade was lifted in 1815.
		Cobden and Bright were appalled by this state of affairs, which they saw first-hand as men of the North, where workers in the growing industrial cities were trying to feed their families.
		Cobden injected life and organization in the the League in 1839, and six years later the Anti-Corn-Law League suceeded in pushing for the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1844, a struggle that returned some small measure of free trade to Britain.
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	Richard Cobden: Biography of Richard Cobden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It was not until the year 1837, when he successfully contested the borough of Stockport, that he became publicly known.
		In 1838 the anti-corn-law agitation commenced, and in the cause of free trade, Cobden took the foremost rank until the accomplishment of its principles in 1846.
		Shortly afterwards, a public subscription was raised, and the handsome sum of £75,000 was contributed, as a testimonial of his countrymen to the unwearied exertions of Cobden.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/C/RichardCobden.html (119 words)

	Richard Cobden -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Cobden was the fourth of 11 children of a poor farmer.
		One of Cobden's most powerful pamphlets, 1793 and 1853, in Three Letters (1853), was a plea to his contemporaries to avoid “past errors” and keep out of war with France.
		Cobden did not live long enough to see the eclipse of his free-trade hopes, which continued to be shared by the Cobden Club, founded to perpetuate his principles.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9024535 (1720 words)

	Cobden, Richard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Campaigning both inside and outside Parliament (to which he was elected in 1841), he finally won over Sir Robert Peel, and the corn laws were repealed in 1846.
		After 1849, Cobden concerned himself chiefly with foreign policy, advocating nonintervention in Europe and an end to imperial expansion.
		Reelected in 1859, he negotiated (1859–60) the “Cobden Treaty” for reciprocal tariffs with France.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Cobden-R.html (217 words)

	University of Delaware: LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN SANDERSON
		Publisher Richard Cobden Sanderson was the son of British bookbinder and printer Thomas James Cobden Sanderson (1840-1922), who founded the Doves Press, at Hammersmith, a borough of greater London.
		Following his retirement from publishing as World War II was beginning, Cobden Sanderson served as a spotter of enemy aircraft near his home and in other volunteer capacities, as did his wife Gwladys (Sally).
		Although most of the letters are addressed to Richard Cobden Sanderson, some are written to his wife Gwladys (Sally), and certainly most refer to her.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/cobdensa.htm (871 words)

	Cobden Bio: The Online Library of Liberty
		2 of The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, with a Preface by Lord Welby, Introductions by Sir Louis Mallet, C.B., and William Cullen Bryant, Notes by F.W. Chesson and a Bibliography, 2 vols.
		Cobden was a member of the British Parliament and an advocate of free trade, a non-interventionist foreign policy, peace, and parliamentary reform.
		Sir Louis Mallet,"The Political Opinions of Richard Cobden" in vol.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Intros/Cobden.php (307 words)

	Cobden, Richard on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Reelected in 1859, he negotiated (1859-60) the “Cobden Treaty” for reciprocal tariffs with France.
		Richard Cobden and the Crimean War: Anthony Howe looks at the anti-war stance of the great Victorian reformer; his fall from grace and subsequent revival.
		Hear the words of Cobden and Bright: for a truly ethical policy, Robin Cook should listen to the opponents of the Crimean war.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Cobden-R1.asp (421 words)

	Cobden's Biography - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Cobden to J.R.Robinson 26 July 1851, concerning the French journalist Emile de Girardin at the time of the Peace Congress in London
		Cobden now became preoccupied with explaining why Palmerston had gained so much support and in order to counter this helped set up the pro-peace Morning Star daily newspaper in 1856.
		This theme dominated Cobden's last years as he attempted to educate the public through his writings, especially his important tract The Three Panics (1862) and to influence parliament through his vehemently anti-Palmerstonian speeches before his untimely death in April 1865.
	www.uea.ac.uk /his/research/projects/cobden/biography.shtml (1406 words)

	NPG 201; Richard Cobden
		Richard Cobden, the radical statesman and advocate of free trade, worked as a clerk and commercial traveller before establishing a successful calico printing business in 1828.
		The original version of the portrait was painted in Paris where Cobden was engaged in successfully negotiating a commercial treaty with France.
		The treaty was signed by Barouche and Rouher for the French and by Lord Cowley and Cobden for the English; the signatures of the last three can be seen in the portrait.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp00936&rNo=2&role=sit (136 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Letters of Richard Cobden
		The Richard Cobden Letters Project is based in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
		Cobden was a leading English radical of the Nineteenth Century who was instrumental in the founding of the Anti-Corn Law League and the campaign for international free trade.
		It includes access to a biography of Cobden, listing of relevant research being undertaken at the LSE and links to related web sites.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=4372 (213 words)

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