Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical

Author:   Roger Swift (University of Chester, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138331891


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   14 August 2018
Format:   Paperback
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This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was elected to Parliament as a Radical in 1835 and subsequently served the constituency of Wolverhampton for sixty-three years until his death in 1898. A staunch Liberal free trader throughout his life, Villiers played a pre-eminent role in the Anti-Corn Law League as its parliamentary champion, introduced an important series of Poor Law reforms and later split with William Gladstone over the issue of Irish Home Rule, turning thereafter to Liberal Unionism. Hence Villiers, who remains the longest-serving MP in British parliamentary history, was intimately involved with many of the great issues of the Victorian Age in Britain.

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Author:   Roger Swift (University of Chester, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9781138331891


ISBN 10:   1138331899
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   14 August 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Making of a Radical 2. The Member for Wolverhampton 3. The Young Parliamentarian 4. The Campaign against the Corn Laws 5. Interlude 6. The Cabinet Minister 7. The View from the Backbenches 8. Gladstone and the Home Rule Crisis 9. The Father of the House Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Roger Swift is Emeritus Professor of Victorian Studies at the University of Chester, UK

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