Author : Edward Law
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ISBN 13 : 9781332485734
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (857 download)
Book Synopsis A Political Diary, Vol. 1 of 2 by : Edward Law
Download or read book A Political Diary, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Edward Law and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Political Diary, Vol. 1 of 2: 1828-1830 Edward Law, second Lord Ellenborough, the author of this Diary, was born September 8, 1790. He was the eldest son of Edward Law, afterwards Attorney General and Chief Justice of England, who was raised to the peerage as Baron Ellenborough in 1802, son of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle, author of 'Law's Theory of Religion.' He was educated at Eton and St. John's College, Cambridge. Among his Eton contemporaries was the late Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, who, thought his senior, survived him nearly nine years, and with whom his personal friendship lasted through life, through just at the period included in the accompanying Diary he seems to have felt some dissatisfaction with his conduct as an ambassador serving under the Ministry of which he was a member. Lord Ellenborough throughout life felt a warm interest in Eton, but always spoke rather slightingly of his recollections of the University. Something of this appears in the remarks he makes on Academic voters at the time of Peel's defeat by Sir R. Inglis at Oxford. Probably the typical College Don of the days of Gibbon and Horace Walpole still lingered to a great extent in the earlier years of the present century. 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 as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.