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

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