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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    doctrine, it was named in honour of Richard Cobden, who had died the year before. Potter was honorary secretary of the Cobden Club from its foundation until...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Cobden /ˈkɒbdən/ is a town located 200 kilometres southwest of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia named in honour of Richard Cobden. At the 2006 census, Cobden...
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    wife, Mary, lived at 100 Bayswater Road. Tony Blair Winston Churchill Richard Cobden, lived on Westbourne Terrace A. J. Cronin Umaru Dikko, former Nigerian...
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    Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, M.P. Volume II (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), pp. 399–400. Wendy Hinde, Richard Cobden. A Victorian Outsider (Yale...
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  • Gartzke states: "Scholars like Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Richard Cobden, Norman Angell, and Richard Rosecrance have long speculated that free markets have...
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    born in London in 1853 to Catherine Anne and the radical politician Richard Cobden. After her father died, she was educated at schools in Britain and Germany...
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    promoted by the Anti-Corn Law League, grass roots activists led by Richard Cobden and based in the industrial cities; they demanded cheap food. There...
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    all such local associations, was founded, with Richard Cobden and John Bright among its leaders. Cobden was the chief strategist; Bright was its great...
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  • Richard Cobden was launched in 1845 in Dundee. She first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1845. On 22 October 1850 Richard Cobden, Archibald, master...
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    were offended by the change, including former Mardi Gras president Richard Cobden, who said that the group did not have the authority to make such a change...
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    Cobden is a small community in the Township of Whitewater Region, in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It is located 95 kilometres (59 mi) northwest of...
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    by Richard Cobden remains almost the sole contemporaneous evidence as to who actually made the decision to invade and annex Burma. Richard Cobden made...
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    The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, vol. 2). The full text is now available as a book digitized by Google: Richard Cobden (1853). How Wars are Got...
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    Burke—sometimes almost divine". The Radical MP and anti-Corn Law activist Richard Cobden often praised Burke's Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. The Liberal...
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  • supported the Unionist side in the American Civil War. He wrote on Richard Cobden, for his major biography.[citation needed] James Heartfield, The Aborigines'...
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  • the editor of The Cobden Project, a four-volume set of annotated letters of the nineteenth century British politician Richard Cobden, published by Oxford...
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  • of the 19th century that originated in Manchester, England. Led by Richard Cobden and John Bright, it won a wide hearing for its argument that free trade...
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    served two years as a school governor at Beckford Primary School and Richard Cobden Primary School and is a current governor at the Working Men's College...
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    treaty with Great Britain in 1860 ratified the free trade policy of Richard Cobden and Michel Chevalier, had brought upon French industry the sudden shock...
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    September 1859 the Radical MP Richard Cobden visited Gladstone, who recorded it in his diary: "... further conv. with Mr. Cobden on Tariffs & relations with...
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