Richard Cobden - Wikipedia Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was an English Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace He was associated with the Anti–Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty
Richard Cobden | British Politician Free Trade Advocate | Britannica Richard Cobden (born June 3, 1804, Dunford Farm, near Midhurst, Sussex, Eng —died April 2, 1865, London) was a British politician best known for his successful fight for repeal (1846) of the Corn Laws and his defense of free trade
Richard Cobden - Encyclopedia. com COBDEN, RICHARD (1804–1865), British political and economic reformer Richard Cobden was the leading spokesman in mid-nineteenth-century Britain for free trade, laissez-faire, and internationalism
The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-1865) Online: An exploration in . . . Today is the official launch of the Letters of Richard Cobden Online This resource contains a searchable collection of digital transcripts of letters written by Cobden and a virtual exhibition of the original documents Dr Simon Morgan, Principal Investigator for the project, explains more…
The Letters of Richard Cobden Although he never held government office, Cobden’s ideas about free trade being the basis for prosperity for all and peaceful relations between nations became popular orthodoxy in Britain for over eighty-five years, from the repeal of the Corn Law in 1846 to the return to protectionism in 1932
HET: Richard Cobden Richard Codben, together with John Bright, was the founder of the Manchester-based Anti-Corn Law League in 1838, which was largely responsible for the repeal of the Corn Laws by Peel in 1846 Cobden was first elected to parliament in August 1841 as an MP for Stockport After 1846, Cobden concentrated on a campaign against British imperialism
Richard Cobden: activist for peace – The Cobden Centre On June 3, 1804, Richard Cobden was born Nicknamed the “Apostle of Free Trade,” he spearheaded the campaign against the protectionist Corn Laws, leading to their repeal in 1846, which then spread to the liberalization of trade throughout much of Europe
Richard Cobden - UEA Richard Cobden was arguably the most influential nineteenth-century British politician never to have held office under the Crown There has been much recent interest in the Anti-Corn Law League, with which Cobden is indelibly associated, but the importance of his correspondence goes far beyond this
Cobden, Illinois - Wikipedia Cobden began as an agricultural town and developed around the tracks of a route owned by the Illinois Central Railroad (now owned by Canadian National Railway), as well as being along a main highway, U S Highway 51, running through the region
Richard Cobden - The Victorian Web In 1832 Cobden settled in Manchester but went on to visit America and the Levant Consequently he published England, Ireland and America in 1835 and Russia in 1836 In them he preached free trade and economic non-intervention by the government