Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was an English Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace. He...
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Cobden may refer to: Richard Cobden, British manufacturer and politician Australia Cobden, Victoria Cobden Football Club Canada Cobden, Ontario New Zealand...
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French originators of the treaty, Richard Cobden MP and Michel Chevalier. In a Parliamentary session of 1859, Cobden's friend and political ally John Bright...
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Anne Cobden, a socialist, and daughter of Richard Cobden, and they both took the surname Cobden-Sanderson. As a friend of William Morris, Cobden-Sanderson...
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world peace. It is named after the British statesman and economist Richard Cobden and had its heyday of political influence in the British Empire during...
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radical causes. A daughter of the Victorian reformer and statesman Richard Cobden, she was an early proponent of women's rights, and was one of two women...
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named after British politician Richard Cobden, who visited the town in 1859. An early variant name was "South Pass". Cobden began as an agricultural town...
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individualism, liberty and equal rights. Writers such as John Bright and Richard Cobden opposed aristocratic privilege and property, which they saw as an impediment...
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Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, M.P., Vol. 1, London: T. Fisher Unwin, republished as Cobden, R. (1995), London: Routledge/Thoemmes...
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John Bright (section Cobden and the Corn Laws)
Bright is most famous for battling the Corn Laws. In partnership with Richard Cobden, he founded the Anti-Corn Law League, aimed at abolishing the Corn Laws...
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