Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
1778–1868
Scottish-born statesman, lawyer, reformer, and educationalist. A founder of the Edinburgh Review, 1802, the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1826, and London University, 1826. Prolific author. Lord chancellor, 1830–4. A founder of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, 1857. Elected chancellor of Edinburgh University, 1859. Created Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1830. FRS 1803.
Sources
ODNB
Record of the Royal Society of London.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
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