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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, known as Lord Palmerston, was a British Anglo-Irish politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to his death in 1865. A member of the Tory, Whig and Liberal parties, Palmerston was also the first Liberal prime minister. An ideologue of free trade and a major sponsor of the Opium Wars against the Chinese E…
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politics · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1855–1858, 1859–1865) · politician · also Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Palmerston
Born 20 October 1784 · Died 18 October 1865 · Q193656
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It is difficult not to come to the conclusion that the rabid hatred of England which animates the exiled Irishmen who direct almost all the Northern newspapers, will so excite the masses as to make it impossible for Lincoln and Seward to grant our demands; and we must therefore look forward to war as the probable result.
failure to understand Bismarck lies at the root of his misunderstanding of the Schleswig-Holstein question, and it derived from an old man
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
“It is difficult not to come to the conclusion that the rabid hatred of England which animates the exiled Irishmen who direct almost all the Northern newspapers, will so excite the masses as to make it impossible for Lincoln and Seward to grant our demands; and we must therefore look forward to war as the probable result.”
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
“failure to understand Bismarck lies at the root of his misunderstanding of the Schleswig-Holstein question, and it derived from an old man”
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
“Gladstone will soon have it all his own way and whenever he gets my place we shall have strange doings”
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
“an anti-English feeling, an abnegation of all those ties which bind men to their country and to their fellow countrymen, which I should hardly have expected from the lips of any member of this House. Everything that was English was wrong, and everything that was hostile to England was right.”
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
BBC rated the claim “Lord Palmerston said "it's so difficult to live when no-one wages war on Russia."” We've found no evidence of Lord Palmerston saying this..
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Gladstone recounted a story of when "a Frenchman, thinking to be highly complimentary, said to Palmerston: 'If I were not a Frenchman, I should wish to be an Englishman'; to which Pam coolly replied: 'If I were not an En
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Lord Rosebery became foreign secretary in the Third Gladstone ministry, John Bright, a longstanding radical critic of Palmerston, asked Rosebery if he had read about Palmerston's policies as foreign secretary
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With the title The Life and Correspondence of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston; the letters are judiciously curtailed, but unfortunately without indicating where the excisions occur; the appendices of the original
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Died 1865-10-18.
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
“Constitutional States I consider to be the natural Allies of this country and whoever may be in office conducting the affairs of Great Britain, I am persuaded that no English Ministry will perform its duty if it be inattentive to the interests of such States.”
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1865–1865).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
“I will venture to lay it down as a general principle, that there are no better means for securing the continuance of peace, than to have it known that the possessions in the neighbourhood of a foreign state are in a condition to repel attack. I am firmly persuaded that among nations, weakness will never be a foundation for security.”
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
“The interests of civilization, the interests of commerce, and the interests of political independence, were all the interests of England, and all had been signally promoted by the emancipation of Greece.”
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
“the independence, the integrity, and the rights of Denmark may be maintained. We are convinced—I am convinced at least—that if any violent attempt were made to overthrow those rights and interfere with that independence, those who made the attempt would find in the result that it would not be Denmark alone with which they would have to contend”
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“Great Britain is in a better state than at any former time to inflict a severe blow upon and to read a lesson to the United States which will not soon be forgotten.”
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Following a reconciliation with Napoleon III and strengthening of Anglo-French relation, a joint expedition was launched into China by British and French forces under the commands of General Sir Hope Grant and Count Pali
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1859–1865).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1859–1865).
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Which looked into the inadequacies of public education and led to increases in school funding in the Revised Code of 1862
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Palmerston's alliance with the Peelites led to his appointments becoming more inclusive which favoured candidates based on merit regardless of theological affiliation
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
British troops led by Lord Elgin bombarded the city of Canton and the conflict was concluded at the Treaty of Tientsin
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1858–1859).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: member of the 17th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1857–1859).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1855–1858).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Over its handling of the Crimean War, Palmerston was the only man able to sustain a majority in Parliament, and he became prime minister
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Palmerston became Home Secretary in the government of the Earl of Aberdeen
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: member of the 16th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1852–1857).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: Home Secretary (1852–1855).
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To 823,533 by 1865, more than quadrupling
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
To wide applause, Palmerston proposed to receive him at Broadlands, a design which was only prevented by a peremptory vote of the cabinet
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
– carried out a coup d'état by dissolving the National Assembly and arresting the leading republicans
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The home of Don Pacifico, a Gibraltarian merchant living in Athens, Greece, was attacked by an antisemitic mob, which included the sons of a Greek government minister
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: member of the 15th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1847–1852).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1846–1851).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
To £363 million in 1865 while imports grew from £65 million to £181 million
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: member of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1841–1847).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Palmerston married his paramour of many years, the noted Whig hostess Emily Lamb, widow of Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau Clavering-Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper (1778–1837) and sister of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbour
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And was a close friend of his father, Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, with whom he had vehemently advocated increased aggression in the Crimean War
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Career landmark: member of the 13th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1837–1841).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: member of the 12th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1835–1837).
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“the pivot of my foreign policy”
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And 1835, he made proposals to afford material aid, which were overruled by the cabinet
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
And 1834, the youthful Queens Isabella II of Spain and Maria II of Portugal were the representatives and the hope of the constitutional parties of their countries
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Career landmark: member of the 11th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1832–1834).
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About aiding the Sultan Mahmud II, who was under attack from Muhammad Ali, the wali of Egypt
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France and Britain framed and signed a treaty settlement between Belgium and the Netherlands, inducing the three reactionary powers to accede to it as well; while in Palmerston's second period of office, as his authority
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When Palmerston was in the opposition
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Career landmark: member of the 8th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1826–1830).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Lord Liverpool, who was Prime Minister had to hold together the Tory Cabinet which began to split along political lines
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: member of the 7th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1820–1826).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: member of the 6th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1818–1820).
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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Career landmark: member of the 5th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1812–1818).
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Career landmark: member of the 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1811–1812).
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Asked him to become Chancellor of the Exchequer, then a less important office than it was to become later
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Career landmark: member of the 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1807–1811).
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Palmerston joined the Volunteers mustered to oppose a French invasion, being one of the three officers in the unit for St John's College
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Temple succeeded to his father's Irish peerage as the 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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Born 1784-10-20.
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an anti-English feeling, an abnegation of all those ties which bind men to their country and to their fellow countrymen, which I should hardly have expected from the lips of any member of this House. Everything that was English was wrong, and everything that was hostile to England was right.
the independence, the integrity, and the rights of Denmark may be maintained. We are convinced—I am convinced at least—that if any violent attempt were made to overthrow those rights and interfere with that independence, those who made the attempt would find in the result that it would not be Denmark alone with which they would have to contend
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