Front Page Authors (by Period) Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden

1804 - 1865

About the Author

Cobden 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.

In The Library:

• translator: On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold: The Commercial and Social Consequences which may ensue, and the Measures which it invites (1859)
• author: The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, in 2 vols. (1835)
• author: The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, vol. 1 (1835)
• author: The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, vol. 2 (1853)
• author: Speeches on Free Trade (1903)
• author: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, 2 vols. (1870)
• author: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 1 (Free Trade and Finance) (1870)
• author: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 2 (War, Peace, and Reform) (1870)