Henry Peter Baron Brougham

Mechanism of the Heavens is dedicated to Henry Brougham . The 730-page text consists of a preliminary dissertation (which was later published separately) and versions (with additional mathematical explanations and illustrations) of the first four...

When Lord Brougham became aware of Illustrations of Political Economy, about six months into the series, he solicited HM 's help in promoting pending revisions to the poor laws (which were passed in the...

HW had been writing lively, idiosyncratic letters all her life (of which those to Byron , for instance, survive). Her Memoirs were a venture not only in publishing but also in blackmail. Having completed enough...

HW 's actual surviving letters to Byron were published (with some editorial revising and omission) in the Cornhill Magazine in April 1935. Those to Brougham (written 1824-32) followed in book form in 1975. Those...

On behalf of the Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge , Henry, Lord Brougham , wrote to MS 's husband to propose that she translate into English the advanced French astronomical mathematics of Laplace 's Méchanique Céleste.

As was normal practice for scientific texts at the time, MS had canvassed a number of her learned friends for aid in preparing and proofreading her manuscript. Lord Brougham , Michael Faraday , James Forbes

She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a...

She sent the manuscript of Ellen Middleton to Henry Greville and Lord Brougham for comments. The latter admired it, but objected to its High Church tendencies.

HW wrote the last of her letters to Brougham —or in any case the last that he preserved.

The Illustrations were an immediate success and were widely read: the first number sold 5,000 copies. Lord Brougham lamented that the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledgeshould be driven out of the field...

Among her subjects are Lady Byron (an occasion for HM to deplore Byron 's conduct and influence), Mary Berry , Mary Russell Mitford , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Marcet , Amelia Opie , Mary Somerville

MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...

Following GF 's father's retirement as Ambassador in Paris, the Fullertons travelled for some time in France (where they stayed at Lord Brougham 's villa in Cannes and visited Nice), Germany (where they stayed...

By the end of the 1840s, having launched their own magazine, the Howitts were again in financial difficulties, compelled to ask friends and relatives for help to tide them over. Particularly embarrassing losses were incurred...