COBDEN, RICHARD

kŏbˈdən, 1804–65, British politician, a leading spokesman for the Manchester school. He made a fortune as a calico printer in Manchester. A firm believer in free trade, after 1838 he devoted himself to the formation and work of the Anti-Corn-Law League. Campaigning both inside and outside Parliament (to which he was elected in 1841), he finally won over Sir Robert Peel, and the corn laws were repealed in 1846. After 1849, Cobden concerned himself chiefly with foreign policy, advocating nonintervention in Europe and an end to imperial expansion. He became unpopular for his opposition to the Crimean War (1854–56) and lost his parliamentary seat in 1857. Reelected in 1859, he negotiated (1859–60) the "Cobden Treaty" for reciprocal tariffs with France. Like his close associate John Bright, he favored the North in the Civil War in the United States (which he had twice visited). His many speeches, letters, and pamphlets have been published.

See biography by W. Hinde (1987); study by D. Read (1967).

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Richard Cobden, the Apostle of Free Trade: His Political Career and Public Services, a Biography
Book by John McGilchrist; Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1865
Subjects: Cobden, Richard--1804-1865
RICHARD COBDEN, THE APOSTLE OF FREE TRADE. HIS POLITICAL...THEMSELVES ," ETC. BIRTHPLACE OF RICHARD COBDEN. NEW YORK: HARPER BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS...OBSERVED TO THE LEFT OF A YEW-TREE. LIFE OF RICHARD COBDEN. CHAPTER I. EARLY DAYS. ONE...
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Cobden and Modern Political Opinion: Essays on Certain Political Topics
Book by James E. Thorold Rogers; Macmillan, 1873
Subjects: Cobden, Richard--1804-1865, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1837-1901, Political Science
COBDEN AND MODERN POLITICAL OPINION. COBDEN AND MODERN POLITICAL OPINION. ESSAYS ON CERTAIN POLITICAL...THE following pages are an attempt to define the place which Cobden holds in the political and economical history of this country...
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Richard Cobden: the International Man
Book by J. A. Hobson, Neville Masterman; Benn, 1968
Subjects: Great Britain--Politics And Government--1837-1901, Legislators--Great Britain--Biography, Social Reformers--Great Britain--Biography
RICHARD COBDEN THE INTERNATIONAL MAN RICHARD COBDEN THE INTERNATIONAL MAN J. A. HOBSON New Edition...POEM BY AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR IN HONOUR OF RICHARD COBDEN ix INTRODUCTION TO THE...
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Letters of John Richard Green
Book by Leslie Stephen, John Richard Green; Macmillan Company, 1901
Subjects: Church Of England--Clergy--Correspondence, Green, John Richard--1837-1883, Historians--Great Britain--Correspondence
LETTERS OF JOHN RICHARD GREEN Letters of John Richard Green EDITED BY LESLIE STEPHEN New York THE MACMILLAN...LIST OF PLATES Portrait of John Richard Green, from a photograph by Fratelli Alinari, Firenze...
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The Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes: First Lord Houghton - Vol. 2
Book by T. Wemyss Reid; Cassell Publishing Co., 1891
Subjects: Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes--Baron--1809-1885
...combination of Galway, * Gladstone, and Cobden, and my fathers sacrifice to party opinion...that city against Messrs. Bright and Cobden, but he declined to entertain this proposition...anybody. Lord John laughs a good deal at Cobdens budget, and says that a legacy duty on...
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Is There a Logic of the West?
Journal article by Bruce Cumings, Richard Falk, Stephen M. Walt, Michael C. Desch; World Policy Journal, Vol. 11, 1994
Subjects: World Politics
...the militarist aristocracy and the ascendancy of a profit-oriented bourgeoisie would make states less bellicose; Richard Cobden s famous claim that increasing international economic interdependence would foster more peaceful political relations...
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The Value of Counsel: 20 Years of Representation Before a Public Housing Eviction Board
Journal article by Karl Monsma, Richard Lempert; Law & Society Review, Vol. 26, 1992
Subjects: Sociological Jurisprudence
...the Impact upon a Magistrates Court . London: Cobden Trust. Lempert, Richard ( 1989 ) "The Dynamics of Informal Procedure...New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Lempert, Richard, Karl Monsma ( 1988 ) "Lawyers and Informal...
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Exhibitions and Events Reviews
Journal article by Andrea Graham, Andrew Connors, Sally Yerkovich, Gary Stanton, Judy Smith, William Wroth, Robert Webb, Richard Kurin, Diana Parker, Peter Seitel; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 105, 1992
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...Folklife Festivals", pp. 288- 314, and Richard Kurin, "Cultural Conservation through...people really did ask the Cerny family of Cobden, Illinois, what made the tomatoes grow...work, play, and performance. It is, as Richard McC. Adams, Secretary of the Smithsonian...
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Railway Influence in Parliamentary Elections at Grimsby
Journal article by David Hodgkins; The Journal of Transport History, Vol. 23, 2002
...January 1864, though it was Richard Withers, a Liverpool stockbroker...especially after he was appointed by Cobden to organise the Operatives...the only declared candidate. Richard Potter, a partner in Price...By 1900 Derby had elected Richard Bell, the secretary of the...
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The Work of Élie Halévy: a Critical Appreciation
Journal article by Charles Coulston Gillispie; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: Editing, Essays, History, Religion
...delayed him so that, except for the fragmentary Age of Peel and Cobden, we have none of what he would otherwise have written on the...edition of Vol. IV has the separate title, The age of Peel and Cobden (London, 1947). 8. After Vol. III of the History, Halevy interrupted...
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Richard Cobden and the Crimean War: Anthony Howe Looks at the Anti-War Stance of the Great Victorian Reformer; His Fall from Grace and Subsequent Revival
Magazine article by Anthony Howe; History Today, Vol. 54, June 2004
Subjects: Activists--Influence, Activists--Political activity, Bright, John--Influence, Bright, John--Political activity, British foreign relations--History, British history, 1815-1914, Cobden, Richard--Influence, Cobden, Richard--Political activity, Crimean War, 1853-1856--Political aspects, Political activists--Influence, Political activists--Political activity, Reformers--Influence, Reformers--Political activity, Social reformers--Influence, Social reformers--Political activity
Richard Cobden and the Crimean War: Anthony Howe Looks...prominence of the Manchester calico printer, Richard Cobden (1804-65). Previously known for his...Bradford and London. The two-volume Life of Richard Cobden in 1881 by the future Liberal Cabinet...
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Hear the Words of Cobden and Bright: For a Truly Ethical Policy, Robin Cook Should Listen to the Opponents of the Crimean War
Magazine article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft; New Statesman, Vol. 127, May 29, 1998
Subjects: Cook, Robin--Moral and ethical aspects, International relations--Moral and ethical aspects, United Kingdom--Foreign relations
...of the 19th century, the age of Richard Cobden and John Bright, which was also...bluster disguised as virtue that Cobden and Bright opposed. They had been...answer to the interventionists, Cobden gave another. His principle was...
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The Pickwickian PM
Magazine article by Richard Gott; New Statesman, Vol. 130, November 12, 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Churchill (Book)--Reviews, Churchill's War: Triumph and Adversity (Book)--Reviews
...think of it, we could do with a modern appreciation of Richard Cobden and John Bright, who still have pithy things to say...with Jenkinss generation of Labour politicians. Pity. Richard Gott is the author, with Martin Gilbert, of The Appeasers...
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Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 47, December 1997
Subjects: Cheshire, England--Historic sites, Davenport, William Bromley--Homes and haunts, Historic buildings--United Kingdom, Manors--Design and construction
...Bromley (1787-1829). Ned Davenport moved in a circle of progressive intellectuals including Harriet Martineau and Richard Cobden. Another indefatigable collector, he brought back antique statuary from Italy and in 1814 went to see Napoleon on...
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The Tyrant with a Mobile Phone
Magazine article by Richard Gott; New Statesman, Vol. 131, December 9, 2002
Subjects: Saddam Hussein: an American obsession (Book), Saddam: the secret life (Book), Targeting Iraq: sanctions and bombing in US policy (Book), The West and the Rest: globalisation and the terrorist threat (Book), War Plan Iraq: ten reasons against war on Iraq (Book)
...surplus of efficiency and energy for Hindustan?" asked Richard Cobden in 1857. "If Catholic and Protestant cantlive together...would save us all from a lot of unnecessary homework. Richard Gott is writing a book about imperial rebellions
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Rugby Union: Cov Recover Pride with Spirited Win; after a Turbulent Week off the Field, Smiles Are Back on the Players' Faces
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), February 18, 2008
...number of charge-downs. Referee Richard Draper didnt always see Covs...the final man and sent Jack Cobden sprinting over in the corner...Kirisome (1), Johnson (11), Cobden (41), Sanders (72); conversions...Sanders, Kirisome (Jones 69), Cobden (Slater 69); Dorrian, Walls...
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Court in Brief
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), January 3, 2008
Subjects: Traffic regulations
...discharged for one year, compensation of pounds 75 to be paid. Richard Winkless, aged 48, of Faseman Avenue, Tile Hill, Coventry...disqualified for one year. Abdul Bahar Majid, aged 34, of Cobden Street, Foleshill, Coventry, receiving stolen goods to the...
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Boys Basketball
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 21, 2009
Subjects: News agencies, The Associated Press
...Wade 0 0-0 0, Redburg 11 7-8 29, Kanlic 1 0-0 3, Raju 0 0-0 0, Richard 0 0-0 0, Newcombe 1 0-0 2. Totals 19 9-10 51. York u Roth 0...Ridgeview 4. Warrensburg-Latham 4. Pope County 3. Fisher 2. Cobden 2. Woodlawn 1. Pearl City 1. Streamwood 59, Elgin...
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Boys Basketball
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 28, 2009
...STR: Lewis, Domokos, Greene. Elgin 55, Cary-gROVE 33 Elgin u Richard 0 0-0 0, Roth 7 0-3 17, Walker 0 0-0 0, Kanlic 2 2-2 6, Newcombe...Ridgeview 9. Okawville 4. Dwight 4. Fisher 3. Pope County 3. Cobden 2. Goreville 1. Pearl City 1...
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Coventry's Small Squad Deserving of Top-Half End
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 26, 2008
...every summer." One lad who could never be described as new is Richard Protherough, the hooker who is making a rare and final appearance...scrum-half berth. COVENTRY: Russell; McLean, Dixon, Sanders, Cobden; Dorrian, Slater; Maddocks, Whitehead, Dugard, Gillanders...
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Cobden, Richard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COBDEN, RICHARD kob d n, 1804 65, British politician...laws were repealed in 1846. After 1849, Cobden concerned himself chiefly with foreign...Reelected in 1859, he negotiated (1859 60) the "Cobden Treaty" for reciprocal tariffs with France...
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Manchester School
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...political economists of the 19th cent., so called because they met at Manchester. Their most outstanding leaders were Richard Cobden and John Bright . Their chief tenet was that the state should interfere as little as possible in economic matters...
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Bright, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...laws . A staunch laissez-faire capitalist, and, with Richard Cobden , a bastion of the Manchester school of economics...addresses (also ed. by J. E. T. Rogers, 1879); D. Read, Cobden and Bright (1967); J. R. Vincent, The Formation of...
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Chevalier, Michel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...advocated industrial development as the key to social progress. Also a proponent of free trade, he negotiated with Richard Cobden the Anglo-French trade treaty of 1860. His Lettres sur lAmerique du Nord (1836) extols the United States...
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Anti-Corn-Law League
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...districts with headquarters at Manchester and was an outgrowth of the smaller Manchester Anti-Corn-Law Association. Richard Cobden and John Bright were its leading figures. The league won over Sir Robert Peel to its views, and the corn laws...
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