1811 - 1889

Nationality:
English

Historical Period:
The 19th Century

Groups

• The Manchester School

John Bright (1811-1889) was a Quaker and a Member of Parliament who was active with Richard Cobden in opposing the Corn Laws and the war against Russia in the Crimea.

Titles:

• Introduction: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882
• Author: Selected Speeches of the Rt. Hon. John Bright M.P. On Public Questions
• Author: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, 2 vols.
• Author: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, vol. 1
• Author: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, vol. 2
• Editor: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, 2 vols.
• Editor: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 1 Free Trade and Finance
• Editor: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy. Vol. 2 War, Peace, and Reform

Quotations:

• John Bright on war as all the horrors, atrocities, crimes, and sufferings of which human nature on this globe is capable (1853)
• John Bright calls British foreign policy "a gigantic system of (welfare) for the aristocracy" (1858)
• John Bright denounces the power of the war party in England (1878)

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