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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. Election for the West Riding - purchase of Dunford - correspondence; 2. Miscellaneous correspondence on social and political movements; 3. The Don Pacifico debate - the Papal aggression - correspondence with Mr. Bright on reform - Kossuth; 4. The Protectionists in office; 5. The panic of 1853; 6. The Crimean War; 7. Death of his son; 8. Chinese affairs - Cobden's motion - the dissolution; 9. The Indian Mutiny - private affairs - second journey to America; 10. Return from America - the new ministry; 11. The French treaty; 12. Holiday and return to Paris; 13. The tariff - the fortification scheme; 14. The policy of the commercial treaty; 15. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1859-60 - Paris - return to England; 16. The American war - fortification schemes - international law; 17. Correspondence with Mr. Delane; 18. The Danish war - last speeches in Parliament - correspondence; 19. Speech at Rochdale - the land question - correspondence - last days and death; 20. Conclusion; Index....
