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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Thomas Babington Macaulay (redirect from Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay)
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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James de la Cloche (section Lord Acton's Research)
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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