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See also:SIR See also:ARTHUR See also:HELPS (1813-1875)
, See also:English writer and clerk of the Privy See also:Council, youngest son of See also: Neither in these, nor in his only other dramatic effort, Oulita the Serf (1858) did he show any real qualifications as a playwright . Helps possessed, however, enough dramatic See also:power to give life and individuality to the dialogues with which he enlivened many of his other books . In his Friends in Council, a Series of Readings and Discourse thereon (1847-1859), Helps varied his presentment of social and moral problems by dialogues between imaginary personages, who, under the names of Milverton, See also:Ellesmere and Dunsford, See also:grew to be almost as real to Helps's readers as they certainly became to himself . The See also:book was very popular, and the same expedient was resorted to in Conversations on See also:War and See also:General Culture, published in 1871 . The See also:familiar speakers, with others added, also appeared in his Realmah (1868) and in the best of its author's later See also:works, Talk about Animals and their Masters (1873) . A See also:long essay on See also:slavery in the first series of Friends in Council was subsequently elaborated into a See also:work in two volumes published in 1848 and 1852, called The Conquerors of the New See also:World and their Bondsmen . Helps went to See also:Spain in 1847 to examine the numerous See also:MSS. bearing upon his subject at See also:Madrid . The fruits of these researches were embodied in an historical work based upon his Conquerors of the New World, and called The See also:Spanish See also:Conquest in See also:America, and its Relation to the See also:History of Slavery and the See also:Government of Colonies (4 vols., 1855-1857-1861) . But in spite of his scrupulous efforts after accuracy, the success of the book was marred by its obtrusively moral purpose and its discursive character . The Life of See also:Las Casas, the Apostle of the See also:Indians (1868), The Life of See also:Columbus (1869), The Life of See also:Pizarro (1869), and The Life of Hernando Cones (1871), when extracted from the work and published separately, proved successful . Besides the books which have been already mentioned he wrote: Organization in Daily Life, an Essay (1862), Casimir See also:Maremma (1870), Brevia, See also:Short Essays and Aphorisms 0871), Thoughts upon Government (1872), Life and Labours of Mr Thomas See also:Brassey (1872), See also:Ivan de See also:Biron (1874), Social Pressure (1875) . His appointment as clerk of the Council brought him into See also:personal communication with See also:Queen See also:Victoria and the See also:Prince See also:Consort, both of whom came to regard him with confidence and respect .
After the Prince's See also:death, the Queen See also:early turned to Helps to prepare an appreciation of her See also:husband's life and character
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In his introduction to the collection (1862) of the Prince Consort's speeches and addresses Helps adequately fulfilled his task
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Some years afterwards he edited and wrote a See also:preface to the Queen's Leaves from a See also:Journal of our Life in the See also:Highlands (1868)
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In 1864 he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the university of See also:Oxford
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He was made a C.B. in 1871 and K.C.B. in the following See also:year
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His later years were troubled by See also:financial embarrassments, and he died on the 7th of See also: |
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