Richard Cobden

1804 - 1865

Titles on this disk:

• translator: On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold: The Commercial and Social Consequences which may ensue, and the Measures which it invites
• author: The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, vol. 1
• author: The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, vol. 2
• author: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 1 (Free Trade and Finance)
• author: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 2 (War, Peace, and Reform)

Quotation:

• (11 January, 2010) Richard Cobden outlines his strategy of encouraging more people to acquire land and thus the right to vote in order to defeat the “landed oligarchy” who ruled England and imposed the “iniquity” of the Corn Laws (1845)

About this person:

Richard Cobden (1804-1865) was a member of the British Parliament and an advocate of free trade, a non-interventionist foreign policy, peace, and parliamentary reform. He is best remembered for his activity on behalf of the Anti-Corn Law League which helped reduce British tariffs in 1846 and for negotiating the Anglo-French trade agreement of 1860.