Edward the 3rd Lord Suffield: Norfolk's Most Radical Peer - Couverture souple

Harbord, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1726651703 ISBN 13 : 9781726651707

Editeur : Independently published, 2018

Synopsis

Edward Lord Suffield broke the suffocating mould of the aristocracy in the early 1800s. They had become locked into confrontation with 'the masses' out of fear of the revolution. Edward looked to wider horizons to break the deadlock so he supported Parliamentary reform in the Upper House of Parliament but he also looked for a way to divert the massive middle class indignation about poor representation through the abolition of slavery. He accomplished this in the Upper House single handedly - a mighty task given the entrenched vested interest in maintaining slavery. It was an achievement for which he has been sadly forgotten in Britain anyway - perhaps not so much in Canada where a suburb of Toronto is named after him. His eureka moment came in the Peterloo Massacre in 1819, when many of his Lancashire tenants were killed, maimed and traumatised when the Manchester magistrates launched the military on a peaceful demonstration. Alone he challenged the legality of that fateful decision in the face of royal and governmental support for the action. From then on he was a radical reform force in British politics but his life was cut tragic ally short soon after his greatest triumph - the abolition of slavery

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1726651703
• ISBN 13: 9781726651707
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 267
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