biography
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Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
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| lived:
| (1838–1903)
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| biography:
| Historian and philosopher, born in Newton Park, near Dublin, E Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1861 published anonymously The Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland - four essays on Swift, Flood, Grattan, and O'Connell. His other works include History of England in the 18th Century (1878–90), Democracy and Liberty (1896), and The Map of Life (1899). He became MP for Dublin University in 1895, and a privy councillor in 1897. |
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