xt7qjq0stw34_5524 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_64/Folder_22/Multipage29015.pdf undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_5524 xt7qjq0stw34 Brougham and Vaux, Henry Peter,
Lord (I). 1778, (I. 1868), statesman and
lawyer, was educated at the High School
and University of Edinburgh, and in 1800
became a member of the Scottish bar,
becoming conspicuous as the centre of the
group of young Whigs then in Edin-
burgh. He was one of the founders of the
va/U/y’un'g/fl Jirrim‘, the first number of
which appeared in October, 1802, and for
many years he continued to be one of its
largest contributors. Later he was called
to the English bar, and in 1805) was re-
turned to Parliament for the small Cornish
borough of Cumelford. He became at once
a leadingr orator of the \Vhigs and the
special opponent of Canninghimself, against
whom he fought a famous election contest
at Liverpool. The greatest achievement in
his early parliamentary Career was carrying
through the bill which, by making the slave
trade felony, made effectual Fox’s Act for
its abolition. As a. lawyer, his successful
defence of Leigh Hunt for republishing an
article on flogging in the army brought him
into the first rank of political advocates. He
was largely influential in givingprominence
to schemes of popular education, 111 1523
co-operated with Mr. Birkbeck in founding

meehanics’ institutes, and was one of the
most prominent amongst these who es-
tablished the unscctarian London Uni-
versity. From 1820 his political importance
continued to increase. He made political
capital out of the wrongs of Queen Caroline,
and obtained great; popularity out of his
conduct of her case. He advocated every
motion for parliamentary reforiris, and in
1822 brought forward an attack on the
influence of the Crown. His famous speech
i111828 on the defects of the common law
courts and the law of real property brought
him into prominence as a law reformer;
and in 1830 the fall of the “felling-ton
ministry was precipitated by his announce-
ment that he would introduce a Reform
Bill. In Grey’s \Vhig ministry he became
Lord Chancellor and a peer. This was the
culminating point of his career. As Lord
Chancellor, his overbearing manners, cou-
pled with his ignorance of equity law, made
him extremely unpopular, and in the cabinet
his inordinate vanity and reckless incorr-
sistency made it impossible for his colleagues
to work with him. The Whig ministry was
thrown out in lS‘dt, and on its return after
Peel‘s failure no place was found for the
late minister. Formally years, however, he
found useful scope for his energies as a law
reformer, and in literature. He was the
author of a JIistm'j/ qf flu: IIousc qf'measch',
and Sketches of the Status-mm oft/(e Time (f
(Jean 0 III.