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Definition: Cobden, Richard from Philip's Encyclopedia

British Radical politician. With John Bright, he led the campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws and was the chief spokesman in Parliament (1841-57, 1859-65) for the 'Manchester School' of free trade. He opposed Britain's participation in the Crimean War, supported the Union in the US Civil War and negotiated a major trading agreement with France (1860).

Cobden, Richard

From Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought
Richard Cobden (1804–65) was an English manufacturer, radical politician, and a leading political figure in nineteenth-century Britain. From an impoverished farming family, Cobden served a commercial apprenticeship as a clerk and commercial traveler in London before becoming a partner in a calico-printing business near Burnley, Lancashire, in 1828. Cobden's formal schooling ended at the age of fifteen, but he read widely during early adulthood, and tours of Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and the United States broadened his historical and political knowledge and his intellectual horizons. Underpinning Cobden's political philosophy was an ardent belief in Adam Smith's free-market capitalist political economy, but Cobden integrated laissez-faire economics into a broader system of thought, with the aim of promoting international peace and commercial development. Cobden first came to public prominence as the author of two pamphlets, England, Ireland, and America ([1835] 2005) and Russia (1836) …
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Richard Cobden, 1804 – 1865. British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman. From Edward VII His Life and Times, published 1910.
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Cobden, pencil sketch by V. Manzano; in the West...
(born June 3, 1804, Dunford Farm, near Midhurst, Sussex, Eng.—died April 2, 1865, London) British politician. He gained an independent fortune in the calico wholesale business. After travel to study trade policies in Europe and the U.S., he wrote pamphlets on international free trade. He was elected…
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Portrait of Richard Cobden (Dunford, 1804-London, 1865), English politician and economist, by Joseph Fagnani (1819-1873), oil on canvas
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