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COBDEN SENDING SIGNATURES OF ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE MEMBERS
COBDEN
(Richard, 1804-1865, Statesman)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Smith
sending her "six signatures for your collection of League autographs ...", 1 side 8vo., London, 3rd April
Cobden was an English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with two major free trade campaigns, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. In 1838, he and John Bright founded the Anti-Corn Law League, aimed at abolishing the unpopular Corn Laws, which protected landowners' interests by levying taxes on imported wheat, thus raising the price of bread at a time when factory-owners were trying to cut wages. As a Member of Parliament from 1841, he fought against opposition from the Peel ministry, and abolition was achieved on 16th May1846.
Item Date:
1845
Stock No:
41108
£125
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