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1 de dic. de 2005 · F OR over a century after his death, Lord John Russell was remembered above all as a politician who failed to appreciate when it was time to get off the stage. He was widely agreed to have peaked at some point in the 1840s – Gladstone put it even earlier, at his leadership of the Commons in the 1830s 1 – perhaps when he became Prime Minister in 1846 on the wreck of the Peelite Conservative ...
Books. Lord John Russell: A Biography. Paul Scherer. Susquehanna University Press, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 427 pages. The first scholarly biography of Lord John Russell since John Prest, which was published in 1972, this work takes advantage of a great deal of documentation that was not available to Prest.
22 de may. de 2024 · Prime Minister and writer; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery As a Member of Parliament for the Whig party from 1813, Lord John Russell's efforts to reform Parliament contributed to the introduction of the Reform Act in 1832. Prime Minister 1846-52 and 1865-6, and Foreign Secretary 1859-65, he exemplified the Whig doctrines of civil rights, toleration of dissent and respect ...
16 de mar. de 2016 · Lord John Russell was prime minister for over six years, from 1846 to 1852 and from 1865 to 1866. He also led the government in the House of Commons for a further eight years during the premierships of Viscount Melbourne and the Earl of Aberdeen, who both sat in the House of Lords. He was the major influence on the Liberal party for two decades ...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878). Prime minister. A small, cocky man, with an abrasive and resilient personality, Russell was the third son of the duke of Bedford and was educated at Westminster and Edinburgh University. He entered Parliament in 1818, sitting for several constituencies until returned for the City of London in ...
1 de ene. de 2020 · In this video made with and for the History of Parliament Trust, we examine the career of Lord John Russell and his repeated efforts to reform Parliament in ...
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He was succeeded in his earldom by his grandson John Francis Henry (1865-1931), whose father John, Lord Amberley, Liberal Member for Nottingham, 1866-8, had predeceased Russell in 1876, aged 34. Ref Volumes: 1820-1832 Author: David R. Fisher. Notes. See S. Walpole, Life of Lord John Russell, 2 vols. (1889) and J. Prest, Lord John Russell (1972). 1.
