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Informationen zum Autor JOHN MORLEY Born on December 24, 1838, John Morley was the 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM, PC, FRS, FBA. He died on September 23, 1923, and was a British Liberal politician, author, and newspaper editor. He started out as a reporter in the North of England and then became editor of the newly liberal Pall Mall Gazette from 1880 to 1883. In 1883, he was chosen as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP). In 1886, 1892, and 1895, he was Chief Secretary for Ireland. From 1905 to 1910 and again in 1911, he was Secretary of State for India. From 1910 to 1914, he was Lord President of the Council. Morley was a well-known political analyst and wrote a biography of William Gladstone, who was his hero. His works and "reputation as the last of the great nineteenth-century Liberals" made Morley famous. He was against the Second Boer War and empire. He believed that Ireland should have Home Rule. He quit the government in August 1914 because he didn't want Britain to join the First World War as a Russian friend. Klappentext This magisterial biography! first published in 1881! deals with the career of influential political and social reformer Richard Cobden. Zusammenfassung This Life of Victorian radical politician Richard Cobden (1804–1865) was first published in 1881. It was considered outstanding in its careful and systematic use of source material, as Morley had access not only to Cobden's papers but to those of many of his friends and associates. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Early life; 2. Commercial and mental progress; 3. Travels in west and east; 4. The two pamphlets; 5. Life in Manchester, 1837-9; 6. The foundation of the League; 7. The Corn Laws; 8. Cobden enters Parliament - first session; 9. Cobden as an agitator; 10. The new Corn Law; 11. Sir Robert Peel's new policy; 12. Renewed activity of the League - Cobden and Sir Robert Peel - rural campaign; 13. The session of 1844 - factory legislation - the constituencies; 14. Bastiat - new tracts - activity in parliament - Maynooth grant - private affairs; 15. The autumn of 1845; 16. Repeal of the Corn Laws and fall of the government; 17. Correspondence with Sir Robert Peel - cessation of the League; 18. Tour over Europe; Appendix....
