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Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical - The Member for Wolverhampton, 1835-1898, and Father of the House of Commons (Paperback)
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Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical - The Member for Wolverhampton, 1835-1898, and Father of the House of Commons (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham
Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned
numerous government administrations under twenty different prime
ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was
elected to Parliament as a Radical in 1835 and subsequently served
the constituency of Wolverhampton for sixty-three years until his
death in 1898. A staunch Liberal free trader throughout his life,
Villiers played a pre-eminent role in the Anti-Corn Law League as
its parliamentary champion, introduced an important series of Poor
Law reforms and later split with William Gladstone over the issue
of Irish Home Rule, turning thereafter to Liberal Unionism. Hence
Villiers, who remains the longest-serving MP in British
parliamentary history, was intimately involved with many of the
great issues of the Victorian Age in Britain.
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