Henry Peter, Baron Brougham

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...

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...

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....

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

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 ,

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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