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7 de abr. de 2016 · Lord Palmerston. Viscount Palmerston was over 70 when he finally became Prime Minister: the most advanced age at which anyone has ever become Prime Minister for the first time. Holding a large number of offices during the course of his career, he served in government for 46 years: a record in the modern period.
Lord Palmerston was childless and the barony and viscountcy became extinct on his death. The Temple family descended from Peter Temple, of Dorset and Marston Boteler. His eldest son John Temple acquired the Stowe estate in Buckinghamshire and founded the English branch of the family from whom the Viscounts Cobham , the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos and the Earls Temple of Stowe are descended.
12 de ago. de 2021 · Though always a pragmatist, Palmerston was actually much more anti-French in the supposedly liberal 1830s than in the unideological 1840s and 1850s, when he conducted a rapprochement with the Second French Republic after the breakdown of Lord Aberdeen’s entente cordiale – something that curiously historians have neither suggested was due to an ideological alignment (like in the 1830s) nor ...
By 1820 Palmerston, who had inherited his dilettante father’s indebted estates and Irish title in 1802 and had sat, despite his pro-Catholic sentiments, for Cambridge University since 1811, was an odd amalgam of the Regency buck, whose boyish good looks had earned him the nickname ‘Lord Cupid’, and the inconspicuous, as yet apparently unambitious, bureaucrat.2 As secretary at war, a post ...
1 de sept. de 2005 · Lord Palmerston's policies on religion have been variously portrayed as stemming from ignorance, manipulation by an evangelical clique, and mere political calculation. This article, however, argues that although Palmerston lacked the intense spiritual commitments of many of his contemporaries, he still had a serious agenda on religious issues.
Henry John Temple, myöhemmin varakreivi Palmerston, (20. lokakuuta 1784 – 18. lokakuuta 1865) oli englantilainen valtiomies. Palmerston syntyi varakreivilliseen ( engl. viscount ) Palmerston-sukuun ja hänestä tuli varakreivi Palmerston vuonna 1802 isänsä kuoltua.
A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minist...
