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How is the life and policies of Lord Palmerston typical to Victorian Liberalism?
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How is the life and policies of Lord Palmerston typical to Victorian Liberalism? Palmerston was born Henry John Temple in 1784 and in 1802 inherited the title Viscount Palmerston. After an education at Harrow, Edinburgh and St. John's College, Cambridge he was elected as MP for Cambridge University (1811-31), Bletchingley, South Hampshire and represented Tiverton from 1835. He was therefore a member of the elite just as Victorian Liberalism was elitist. His first post in government was as a junior Lord of the Admiralty under Portland in 1807. In 1809 Spencer Perceval, the then Prime Minister, offered Palmerston the Exchequer, but he turned it down, preferring the office of Secretary of War, a position which he held until 1828. While Palmerston had initially entered Parliament as a Tory MP in 1829 he joined the Whigs along with Melbourne. Palmerston was not a typical Victorian. He had entered parliament ten...
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