Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical
This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as a Radical in 1835 and subsequently served the constituency of Wolverhampton for sixty-three years until his death in 1898. A staunch Liberal free trader throughout his life, Villiers played a pre-eminent role in the Anti-Corn Law League as its parliamentary champion, introduced an important series of Poor Law reforms and later split with William Gladstone ove…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-351-97467-7
- EAN: 9781351974677
- Produktnummer: 24436219
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 342 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'251 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 8 schwarz-weiße Fotos
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Roger Swift is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Studies at the University of Chester, UK
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