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Ideologies / Classical Liberal / Richard Cobden
Richard Cobden — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1804–1865 · United Kingdom · Manufacturer & MP

Richard Cobden

The apostle of free trade

Repeal, peace, and commerce between nations.

Classical Liberal →
Economic+58
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Governance−45
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Social+5
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The manufacturer-MP who led the Anti-Corn Law League to victory, making free trade the centrepiece of Victorian liberalism and a programme for peace.

social

Reform-minded radical liberal of the manufacturing class.

economic

Led the fight to repeal the Corn Laws; free trade as a moral cause.

governance

Anti-imperialist non-interventionist; peace through commerce.

Notable for
  • Repeal of the Corn Laws, 1846
  • Anti-Corn Law League
  • Cobden–Chevalier free-trade treaty
free-tradeanti-corn-lawpeace
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