The Clarendon Biographies, Volume 23Oxford University Press, 1969 - Biography |
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... Corn Law League headed by Cobden and Bright had long been agitating for repeal of the Corn Laws . In the election of 1841 the Whigs , after many years of vacillation , had at the last moment declared themselves in favour of change . The ...
... Corn Law League headed by Cobden and Bright had long been agitating for repeal of the Corn Laws . In the election of 1841 the Whigs , after many years of vacillation , had at the last moment declared themselves in favour of change . The ...
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... Corn Laws was never in serious danger , for , although a substantial majority of the Conservative Party voted ... Corn Law Bill passed in the House of Lords , Peel resigned , and Lord John Russell became Prime Minister in a Whig ...
... Corn Laws was never in serious danger , for , although a substantial majority of the Conservative Party voted ... Corn Law Bill passed in the House of Lords , Peel resigned , and Lord John Russell became Prime Minister in a Whig ...
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... Corn Laws really were keeping up the price of bread and were no longer justifiable in 1846 , even if they had been earlier . Moreover , the ruin of English agriculture , which was the great fear of the protectionists , showed no signs ...
... Corn Laws really were keeping up the price of bread and were no longer justifiable in 1846 , even if they had been earlier . Moreover , the ruin of English agriculture , which was the great fear of the protectionists , showed no signs ...
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