David brown palmerston

  • David Brown set out to write the definitive biography of Lord Palmerston (Henry John Temple) and it appears that he has done so.
  • A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784–1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with.
  • A giant of 19th century British politics, Brown uses Palmerston's life to provide a highly nuanced and detailed account of English and, to a lesser extent.

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    Palmerston: A Biography

    Palmerston: A Biography was widely acclaimed upon its publication in 2010, for being the first comprehensive biography of the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784–1865), a grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics who became foreign secretary, prime minister, and one of the defining figures of his age. In an exclusive extract from this acclaimed book (out now in paperback) David Brown outlines the life of this prolific politician, a man whose varied career resists easy historical categorisation.

    Extract from Palmerston: A Biography by David Brown

    ON 18 OCTOBER 1865 Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, died, two days short of his eighty-first birthday. He had just completed his ninth year as Prime Minister and as he lay dying at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire he could, had he been in a nostalgic frame of mind, have looked back on a career spanning almost six decades and one that included, in addition to two terms as Prime Minister, almost nineteen years as Secretary at War, fifteen years as Foreign Secretary and two more as Home Secretary. It had been a good innings by any standard. As William Gladstone would observe, ‘Death has indeed laid low the most towering antlers in all the forest’.

    It is striking, however, that Palmerston’s

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    Palmerston

    “A meticulously researched chronicle that excavates the reality behind the image”—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal

    ~William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal
    "Brown is a superb writer and his Palmerston ought to be required reading for all students of 19th-century political history."—Amanda Foreman, Financial Times
    ~Amanda Foreman, Financial Times
    "...rich, thoughtful...rewarding...surely [the] definitive life"—Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement
    ~Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement
    "David Brown offers a meticulously researched chronicle that excavates the reality behind the image."—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal
    ~William Anthony Hay , Wall Street Journal

    "In a sixty year political career that linked Pitt the Younger and Gladstone Lord Palmerston combined a mastery of high politics and diplomacy with an astute popular touch that secured the support of the British people. In the first full length biography based on the Palmerston archives David Brown reveals the conflicting strands at the heart of a successful career: a sophisticated intellectual with remarkable practical application, a determined hard-working playboy, and above all a politician