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Hace 4 días · William Huskisson was born in 1770. From 1783 to 1792 he lived in Paris, where he was for some time private secretary to Lord Gower, the British Ambassador. In 1795 he became under-secretary at war, and in the following year entered parliament.
Hace 4 días · For the first twenty years of its existence this house was occupied by Elizabeth Mary Huskisson, daughter of Admiral Mark Milbanke, and widow of William Huskisson, statesman, who was killed at the opening of the Manchester and Liverpool railway in 1830.
Hace 3 días · Applications for sites were quickly received and the building of stables for William Huskisson and Sir Robert Lawley started in the spring of 1830. These stables were on the west side of the intended court and still projected into what is now the garden behind the United Service Club.
Hace 2 días · Huskisson, William (1770 –1830) was a British political leader, financier, and Member of Parliament. In 1807 he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury, holding that office until 1809 when he returned to private financial activity as the ablest financier of his time.
Hace 3 días · The more liberal wing of the Tory government made some ground, with George Canning becoming Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons, William Huskisson advocating and applying the doctrines of free trade, and Catholic emancipation emerging as an open question.
Hace 2 días · Financial reform, led by William Huskisson and Peel, rationalised the tariff system, and culminated in the great repeal of the tariffs on imported grain in 1846, much to the dismay of grain farmers. The 1846 repeal of the Corn Laws established free trade as the basic principle by which British merchants came to dominate the globe, and brought ...
Hace 5 días · William Huskisson MP ▸ (Member of Parliament) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
