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VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM (1802-1898)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 86 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM (1802-1898) , English states-man, son of George Villiers, grandson of the 1st
earl
  of Clarendon of the second (Villiers) creation, and brother of the 4th
earl
  (q.v.), was born in London on the 3rd of January 1802, and educated at St John's College,
Cambridge
 . He read for the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and became an associate of the Benthamites and " philosophical radicals " of the day. He was an assistant
commissioner
  to the Poor Law Commission (1832), and in 1833 was made by the master of the Rolls, whose secretary he had been, a chancery examiner of witnesses, holding this office till 1852. In 1835 he was elected M.P. for Wolverhampton, and retained his seat till his death. He was the
pioneer
  of the free-trade
movement
 , and became prominent with Cobden and
Bright
  as one of its
chief
  supporters, being indefatigable in pressing the need for free trade on the
House
  of Commons, by resolution and by petition. After free trade triumphed in 1846 his importance in politics became rather historical than actual, especially as he advanced to a venerable old age; but he was president of the Poor Law Board, with a seat in the Cabinet, from 1859 to 1866, and he did other useful
work
  in the Liberal reforms of the time. Like
Bright
 , he parted from Mr Gladstone on Home Rule for Ireland. He attended parliament for the last time in 1895, and died on the 16th of January 1898.


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