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Sir Henry Brougham by John Adams Acton 1867. Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, PC, FRS (/ ˈ b r uː (ə) m ... ˈ v oʊ k s /; 19 September 1778 – 7 May 1868) was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and played a prominent role in passing the Reform Act 1832 and Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
Henry Peter Brougham (1778–1868), British lawyer, statesman, builder of Cannes; Eugène Brieux (1858–1932), dramatist; Jorge Cuevas Bartholín (1885–1961), American ballet school founder, husband of Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Larraín, Marquesa de Cuevas; John Francis Campbell (1821–1885), Scottish author and scholar
It was created in 1860 for Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, a lawyer, Whig politician, and formerly Lord Chancellor, with remainder to his younger brother William Brougham. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He had already been created Baron Brougham and Vaux , of Brougham in the County of Westmorland, in 1830, also in the Peerage of the United ...
Lord Brougham's Italianate Villa Eléonore Louise (one of the first in Cannes) was built between 1835 and 1839. Also known as the Quartier des Anglais, this is the oldest residential area in Cannes. Another landmark is the Villa Fiésole (known today as the Villa Domergue) designed by Jean-Gabriel Domergue in the style of Fiesole, near Florence ...
Illustration showing pauper children begging in the street with their mother (Anonymous Lithograph in Welcome Collection). After Whitbread's death by suicide in 1815, Henry Brougham who was also on the Lancastrian committee supporting the British & Foreign School Society, [13] became the new de facto leader of the parliamentary group endeavouring to improve education for poor children. [14]
Henry Brougham may refer to: Henry Brougham (divine) (1665–1696), English cleric; Henry Brougham (landowner) (1742–1810), landowner in north-west England; Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), son of the above; Henry Brougham, 3rd Baron Brougham and Vaux (1836–1927), British noble and civil servant
The rise to power of Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, led to the Hall being extended and enlarged between 1830 and 1847, to designs by the architect Lewis Nockalls Cottingham. The building works were largely overseen by Henry's brother, William Brougham, 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux .
Portrait of Henry Brougham is an 1825 portrait painting by the English artist Sir Thomas Lawrence depicting the British politician and lawyer Henry Brougham. [1]A prominent member of the Whig opposition, Brougham made his name for his defence of Caroline of Brunswick in 1820 when her husband George IV attempted to divorce her in the House of Lords.