Talk:Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Emperor of Byzantium

John Buchan mentions in a couple of his stories that an early Victorian Whig statesman interested in legal reform and abolishing slavery also played at being the Emperor of Byzantium in his spare time. Could this be Brougham? If so, the article should mention it. 170.170.59.139 (talk) 06:40, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Sections

This article desperatly needs sections --Snailwalker | talk 19:41, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Assessment drive

Wikipedia Assessment Drive Yamara 01:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Caroline's trial

This article states "bill was defeated by 123 votes to 95", while the article on the bill (Pains and Penalties Bill 1820) states that it passed by a margin of 9 votes. The fact that the bill passed but was never introduced into the House of Commons is well documented.

I am removing that section and replacing it with the correct information. Michael Daly 09:18, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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Dcoetzee 10:05, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Achievements and influences

Through Lord Brougham the renowned French seaside resort of Cannes became very popular.
He had accidentally found the place in 1835, when it was little more than a fishing
village on a picturesque coast, and bought there a tract of land and built on it.

I have a part-time residence in Antibes, between Cannes and Nice. A more complete story of Lord Brougham's settling in Cannes is common knowledge, but since first-hand knowledge is anathema to Wikipedia I offer the following quote:<ref>Kanigel, Robert; ''High Season;'' New York: Viking; 2003, pp. 108-109</ref>

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...His daughter, who joined him in the six-horsed carriage that brought them to the Sardinian frontier, was ill. Nice, he hoped, [Nice was then part of Sardinia—DK] would do them both good. [He suffered exhaustion from overwork as Lord High Chancellor of Britain—DK] Yet here they were, at the Var [River, the French border at the time—DK], after crossing all of France, and border guards in the service of His Sardinian Majesty dared bar the way. [There had been an outbreak of cholera in Marseilles and the Sardinians had established a cordon sanitaire of armed soldiers between themselves and France as a public health measure—DK]

Brougham was not used to being barred by anyone. He was the embodyment of British hauteur——eccentric, incalculably rich, an august political figure who had helped abolish slavery in the British Empire, exposed flogging in the army, created the University of London. If ever there was a Great Man, Brougham was it. Yet still they turned him back.

It is a legendary story after that. Brougham retraced his steps west and put up for the night at a simple auberge [country inn], where a first taste of bouillabaisse moved him to ecstasy. The next day, he went to Antibes to inspect a house where Napoleon had stayed, and vowed to buy it. But public outcry—sell it to an Anglais!?—blocked the sale. So Brougham went to Cannes, bought for a pittance a plot of land on the Fréjus road, built there the Château Eleonore [which I have seen—DK], named for his daughter, and lived there for the next thirty years.

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1. Kanigel, Robert; High Season; New York: Viking; 2003, pp. 108-109 Dick Kimball (talk) 17:09, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Sources for future article expansion

Further readings aren't "bibliographies" and they are generally a bad idea at Wikipedia, where they're generally uncurated and, without glosses, unhelpful for the readers. Kindly restore these

• Bourne, K. (1975). The Blackmailing of the Chancellor. Lemon Tree Press. ISBN 0-904291-04-9.
• Chester W. New (1961).The life of Henry Brougham To 1830, Oxford at the Clarendon Press.
• Huch, Ronald K. (1993). Henry, Lord Brougham The Later Years 1830–1868. The Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-88946-460-X.
• Heinrich Heine: Reisebilder vierter Teil – Englische Fragmente X (1828) – Description of Brougham speaking in the House of Commons.

as they are used to verify items in the running text of the article or once they're glossed to explain their importance to readers. — LlywelynII 06:14, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

There's also more at the EB9 article and most of the EB11 citations are actually derived from the longer article written for the EB9. — LlywelynII 06:23, 16 June 2016 (UTC)