The Life and Times of Henry Lord Brougham
Written by Himself

This three-volume autobiography by Henry Brougham, radical politician and reforming Lord Chancellor, was published posthumously in 1871.

Henry Brougham (Author)

9781108078436, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 March 2015

542 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm, 0.68 kg

A child prodigy, Henry Brougham (1778–1868), later Lord Brougham and Vaux, entered in 1792 the University of Edinburgh, where he focused on mathematics and then law, while his amateur scientific studies led him to become a fellow of the Royal Society at the age of twenty-five. Called to both the Scottish and English bars, and moving in radical political circles, he became famous as a defender of free speech, a passionate abolitionist, and co-founder of the Edinburgh Review. After many years as an MP, he was given a peerage in 1830 and became Lord Chancellor in Lord Grey's Whig government, where he was instrumental in the passing of the 1832 Reform Act. This three-volume autobiography was published posthumously in 1871, with additional notes. Volume 3 covers the period of Brougham's chancellorship, and his later career as a radical politician, ending with some pen-portraits of notable contemporaries, including Lords Holland and Palmerston.

To the reader
Prefatory note
19. Elected Rector of the University of Glasgow
20. Accession of William IV
21. The Grey cabinet
22. State of public feeling
23. The king, the duke of Sussex, and Sir Auguste d'Este
24. Holland, Belgium, and the siege of Antwerp
25. Bishop Phillpotts
26. The position of the Grey cabinet
27. The situation on Lord Grey's retirement
28. Personal sketches of eminent contemporaries
Appendix A.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]