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CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS (1802-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 86 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS (1802-1898)  ,
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English states-man, son of George Villiers, grandson of the 1st
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earl of Clarendon of the second (Villiers) creation, and
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brother of the 4th earl (q.v.), was born in
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London on the 3rd of
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January 1802, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge . He read for the bar at Lincoln's
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Inn, and became an associate of the Benthamites and " philosophical radicals " of the day . He was an assistant
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commissioner to the Poor Law Commission (1832), and in 1833 was made by the master of the Rolls, whose secretary he had been, a
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chancery examiner of witnesses, holding this office till 1852 . In 1835 he was elected M.P. for Wolverhampton, and retained his seat till his
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death . He was the
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pioneer of the
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free-trade
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movement, and became prominent with Cobden and Bright as one of its chief supporters, being indefatigable in pressing the need for free trade on the House of
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Commons, by
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resolution and by petition . After free trade triumphed in 1846 his importance in politics became rather
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historical than actual, especially as he advanced to a venerable old age; but he was president of the Poor Law Board, with a seat in the
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Cabinet, from 1859 to 1866, and he did other useful
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work in the Liberal reforms of the time . Like Bright, he parted from Mr Gladstone on Home
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Rule for Ireland . He attended parliament for the last time in 1895, and died on the 16th of January 1898 .

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