Brougham And His Early Friends: Letters to James Loch 1798-1809

BROUGHAM, Henry Peter. Collected and arranged by R. H. M. Buddle Atkinson and G. A. Jackson..

Item Number: 111033

London: Privately Printed, 1908.

Finely bound example of British Lord High Chancellor’s collected letters to James Loch. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound in half vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, ribbon bound in. In near fine condition.

British statesman Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Brougham won popular renown for helping defeat the 1820 Pains and Penalties Bill, an attempt by the widely disliked George IV to annul his marriage to Caroline of Brunswick. He became an advocate of liberal causes including abolition of the slave trade, free trade and parliamentary reform. Appointed Lord Chancellor in 1830, he made a number of reforms intended to speed up legal cases and established the Central Criminal Court. He never regained government office after 1834 and although he played an active role in the House of Lords, he often did so in opposition to his former colleagues.