The Victorian Chancellors, Vol. 1 of 2: Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Truro (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Atlay, J. B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331828104 ISBN 13: 9781331828105

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Victorian Chancellors, Vol. 1 of 2: Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Truro In this and a succeeding volume I hope to present memoirs of the illustrious men into whose hands the Great Seal of England was from time to time entrusted by Queen Victoria. The present undertaking makes no claim to be regarded as a continuation of Lord Campbell's 'Lives of the Chancellors.' Apart from all question of literary execution, it differs in scale and in scope from that classical work, and was not begun until I had ascertained that no continuation of the original series was contemplated. The larger part, indeed, of the ground occupied in this volume is actually covered by the posthumous volume in which Lord Campbell professed to write the lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham. And the inclusion of the latter statesman partakes of the nature of 'a fraud on the title'; Lord Brougham surrendered the Great Seal two years and seven months before the accession of her late Majesty, and to style him a Victorian Chancellor is, strictly speaking, a misnomer. His.meteoric career, however, is inextricably bound up with the for times of his predecessors and immediate successors in office, as well as with the legal and political history of the early years of the reign. To have omitted him would have robbed these pages of all semblance of completeness. For the life of Lord Lyndhurst Sir Theodore Martin must always remain the prime authority, and the extent of my indebtedness to him may be realised from the repeated references in the text and notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331828104
• ISBN 13: 9781331828105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496