Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century
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He was, therefore, four years olderthan Sir Robert Peel, whom he long survived, and twelve years thesenior of his sometime colleague, Lord John Russell. From Harrow, where he was reckoned the jolliest boy in the school, and thepluckiest fighter, he was sent to Edinburgh in charge of DugaldStewart, one of the great Scottish teachers of the time, andthence, after three years under exceptional educative influences, to Cambridge. His father's death had given him the title ofViscount Palmerston in t...he Irish peerage, and before receivinghis degree, his ambition led him to offer himself to theuniversity as its candidate for the House of Commons. Thoughrejected there, a pocket borough was provided for him, and in1807, at the age of twenty-three, he took his seat as a memberfor Newtown, a borough in which he had never set foot. An officewas soon found for him in the Perceval government as Secretary atWar, a post which was charged with the supervision and control ofmilitary expenditure and accounts--no small responsibility atthis juncture.
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He was, therefore, four years olderthan Sir Robert Peel, whom he long survived, and twelve years thesenior of his sometime colleague, Lord John Russell. From Harrow, where he was reckoned the jolliest boy in the school, and thepluckiest fighter, he was sent to Edinburgh in charge of DugaldStewart, one of the great Scottish teachers of the time, andthence, after three years under exceptional educative influences, to Cambridge. His father's death had given him the title ofViscount Palmerston in t...he Irish peerage, and before receivinghis degree, his ambition led him to offer himself to theuniversity as its candidate for the House of Commons. Thoughrejected there, a pocket borough was provided for him, and in1807, at the age of twenty-three, he took his seat as a memberfor Newtown, a borough in which he had never set foot. An officewas soon found for him in the Perceval government as Secretary atWar, a post which was charged with the supervision and control ofmilitary expenditure and accounts--no small responsibility atthis juncture.
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