Richard Cobden
1804–65
Manufacturer and politician. Leading member of the Anti-Corn Law League, 1838–46. MP for Stockport, 1841–7; for West Riding, Yorkshire, 1847–57; for Rochdale, 1859–65. Vocal advocate for free trade and for non-intervention.
Source
ODNB.
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.
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