Henry Peter, Baron Brougham

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...