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John Bright. (1811-1889), Statesman and orator. Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter associated with 98 portraits. One of the most important and influential political figures of the age. Bright managed his family's cotton mills before entering public life in the 1830s. A radical orator and Liberal politician, he led the agitation ...
John Bright was one of the longest serving Victorian radical politicians. Born in 1811 to a manufacturing family, his first entrance into politics came in the 1830s in the temperance movement, which argued that alcoholic drinks should be banned. He was soon drawn to radical causes, such as the movement against the Corn Laws – government ...
23. Mai 2018 · John Bright. The English politician John Bright (1811-1889) was one of the leading figures in 19th-century British radicalism. An outstanding orator, he was the most prominent British supporter of the North during the American Civil War. Born at Rochdale, Lancashire, on Nov. 16, 1811, John Bright was strongly influenced first by the Quaker ...
ohn Bright was born in Rochdale in 1811, the son of a Quaker cotton spinner. He was educated at a succession of Quaker schools in the north of England, where he developed a lifelong love of the Bible and of the 17th-century English Puritan poets, especially Milton. Quaker beliefs shaped his politics, which consisted mainly of demands for an end ...
John Bright. John Bright (1811-1889) is seen by many as one of the great reformist liberal politicians of the 19th Century. His Parliamentary career was played out in two Acts. The first Act, where he stood as a member for Manchester and became a champion of the free trade movement as one of the original founders of the Anti-Corn Law League.
28. Juni 2014 · John Bright is probably the least studied of the ‘great Victorians’. Unlike his close colleague Richard Cobden—who has attracted a substantial amount of scholarly attention in recent years—Bright has inspired only four major studies since 1946, including the one reviewed here. For Bill Cash, such comparative neglect is unjustifiable and almost incomprehensible in view of Bright’s ...
John Bright, (born Nov. 16, 1811, Rochdale, Lancashire, Eng.—died March 27, 1889, Rochdale), British reform politician and orator. He entered Parliament in 1843 and served three times as a member of William E. Gladstone ’s cabinet. He was active in campaigns for free trade, lower grain prices, and parliamentary reform.
