The Life and Times of Henry Lord Brougham
Written by Himself
3 Volume Set
- Author: Henry Brougham
- Date Published: March 2015
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- isbn: 9781108078443
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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. He also founded the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and 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 some additional notes, but the text was untouched, as stipulated in Brougham's will.
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- Date Published: March 2015
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108078443
- length: 1648 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 mm
- weight: 2.07kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus.
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
Volume 1: To the reader
1. Early life
2. Early life (cont.)
3. Visit to Denmark and Scandinavia
4. The Scotch Bar and the Edinburgh Review
5. Tour through Holland and Italy
6. Volunteering project, and mission to Portugal
7. Politics of the day
8. Home and foreign politics
9. Home politics
Appendix of notes. Volume 2: To the reader
Note to the second edition of Volume 1
10. The Orders in Council
11. Home and foreign politics
12. The Prince and Princess of Wales
13. The Princess of Wales and the Princess Charlotte
14. The Princess of Wales and the Princess Charlotte (cont.)
15. The income-tax
16. The trial of Queen Caroline
17. The northern circuit
18. The proceedings against the queen. Volume 3: To the reader
Prefatory note
19. Elected Rector of the University of Glasgow
20. Accession of William IV
21. The Grey cabinet
22. State of public feeling
23. The king, the duke of Sussex, and Sir Auguste d'Este
24. Holland, Belgium, and the siege of Antwerp
25. Bishop Phillpotts
26. The position of the Grey cabinet
27. The situation on Lord Grey's retirement
28. Personal sketches of eminent contemporaries
Appendix A.
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