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    Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English...
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    Richard Gerald Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, Baron Acton of Bridgnorth (30 July 1941 – 10 October 2010) was a British Labour Party politician and...
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    1904, p. 57. Paul 1904, p. 173. Paul 1904, p. 210. Lord Acton 1919, p. 482. Geyl 1958, p. 30. Lord Moran 1968, pp. 553–554. Potter 1959, p. 10. Potter...
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  • Laloy. In 1862 Lord Acton received copies of the so-called Gesu manuscript from Giuseppe Boero of the Jesuit archives in Rome. Lord Acton later wrote an...
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  • reveal character, not to alter it, recalling the English politician Lord Acton's 1887 statement that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts...
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    until 1902, also the year he succeeded to his father's peerage. The 2nd Lord Acton then served as Second Secretary at successive embassies, in Vienna from...
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    Acton, West Acton, East Acton, South Acton, Acton Green, Acton Town, Acton Vale and Acton Central are all parts of Acton. Acton means "oak farm" or "farm...
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    Enlightenment writers in polemics against organised religion in general. Lord Acton changed his mind on whether the massacre had been premeditated twice,...
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    Mauren. It is named after the English historian, politician and writer Lord Acton, who is popularly associated with the dictum "Power tends to corrupt,...
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  • Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 3rd Baron Acton CMG MBE TD (born Dalberg-Acton; 15 December 1907 – 23 January 1989), was a British peer and soldier. Acton was born in...
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