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The Parliamentary Career of Charles De Laet Waldo Sibthorp, 1826-1855: Ultra-Tory Opposition to Reform in Nineteenth Century Britain
Author(s): Stephen Roberts (Editor), Mark Acton
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 140 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773413596
- ISBN-13: 9780773413597
Book Description
Sibthorp’s story as a soldier, an adulterer, and art collector, is interesting in his determined opposition over three decades in the House of Commons to reform. This book treats his life and adds to knowledge of British politics in the period from Catholic Emancipation (1829) to the Great Exhibition (1851).
