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He enjoyed a long cabinet career and was twice Prime Minister, although historians argue that his record as Prime Minister was less successful than his time in cabinet. Lord John Russell, c.1852 by Geroge Frederic Watts
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 ...
Prime Minister, 1846-1852 and 1865-1866. John Russell was born in Westminster on 18 August 1792, the son of Lord John Russell and Georgiana Byng. He met Sir Walter Scott during a visit to Scotland with his father in 1807 and lodged with Professor John Playfair while studying at the University of Edinburgh. He was elected as MP for Tavistock in ...
Lord John Russell. Lord John Russell (also commonly referred to as ‘Earl Russell’ from 1861), served as Foreign Secretary in Lord Palmerston ’s Government during the American Civil War, making him the first contact for the United States Minister to London, Charles Francis Adams . Russell also met informally with Confederate emissaries ...
Lord John Russell. Lord John Russell served as prime minister on two occasions. He had initially came to Parliamentary attention for helping to write the 1832 Reform Bill, which significantly increased the number of people eligible to vote. He benefitted from the fallout over the Corn Laws that saw the demise of Sir Robert Peel's administration.
In July the prime minister, Peel, reflecting the alarmed yet determined attitude of the Tory government, rejected repeal as ‘tantamount to a dismemberment of the empire.’ 5 In February 1844, the leader of the opposition, Lord John Russell, provoked the most comprehensive debate yet on Ireland, thrusting it squarely into the centre of British politics.
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 ...
