biography
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Villiers, Charles Pelham
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1802–98)
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| biography:
| British statesman and corn-law reformer, a younger brother of George, 4th Earl of Clarendon. He studied at Haileybury and Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1827. He was an MP (1827–87), becoming the ‘Father of the House of Commons’. He made his first motion in favour of Free Trade in 1838, moving a resolution against the corn laws each year until they were repealed in 1846. He was a member of the Cabinet (1859–66) as president of the Poor-Law Board. |
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