biography
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Milnes, Richard Monckton, 1st Baron Houghton
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| biography:
| Politician and man of letters, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and was MP for Pontefract from 1837 until he entered the House of Lords in 1863. A patron of young writers, he was one of the first to recognize Swinburne's genius, and secured the poet laureateship for Tennyson (1850). He championed oppressed nationalities, liberty of conscience, fugitive slaves, and the rights of women and carried a bill for establishing reformatories (1846). As well as his poetry and essays, he published Life, Letters and Remains of Keats (1848). |
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