Henry Peter, Baron Brougham

Brougham came through one last time, writing to Worcester (now Duke of Beaufort) to ask for either £5 or £7 . . . will be quite enough and very handsome. She was presumably buried...

They sometimes attended the local Westminster Infant School in Vincent Square, London, alongside ragged children.

For a few years SF attended Mr Stalker's Academy, an infant school for boys and girls. One of her schoolmates was Henry Brougham , later a lawyer and politician of liberal views who rose...

AJV 's mother was born Agnes Birtwhistle in 1752 at Skipton in Yorkshire, into a family which was a local power there and over the Scottish border at Gatehouse of Fleet. Anna Jane...

Her first important relationship begun in Paris was with Henry Brougham , later Lord Brougham. Unlike her other lovers, he did not destroy her letters, but kept them.

A few years later, as a published author, MRM became friendly with James Perry (editor of the Morning Chronicle). At his house she met a number of eminent men: politicians Lord Brougham and Lord Erskine

She also made male friends who treated her as an intellectual equal (this list overlaps with that of her lovers). She corresponded with Henry Brougham and with Byron . Brougham, the liberal lawyer—anti-abolitionist, pro-Queen-Caroline...

JM probably knew her husband's friends Edward Jenner and William Hyde Wollaston ; she certainly knew and corresponded with John Yelloy . She was a friend on her own account of Margaret Bryan ,

HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...

In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. The names he mentions include actual...

She had made up her mind to accept a mooted pension in 1832, but it never materialised and she came to feel that her independence of mind was too precious to accept such an obligation....

This time her reception was more positive. Lord Brougham judged that this pamphlet, as clever a thing as ever was written, would certainly contribute to reforming the divorce laws.J. W. Kaye 's The...

The Anti-Slavery Convention was the culmination of years of abolitionist work for AO , work which brought her into contact with such figures as the lawyer and politician Henry, Lord Brougham , in England and...

This indicates an active political conscience. Lord Lonsdale wielded his huge local power on behalf of the Tory Party. In February this year there were riots in Kendal when two sons of Lonsdale, standing as...

As Stockdale had anticipated, the pirates had a field day. Unauthorised editions included those of Onwhyn (whom Stockdale took to court, vainly, on 11 January 1826), Duncombe (whose verbatim and allegedly cheapest edition was advertised...