
Donald Southgate
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LOCATION: Bridford, Exeter, United Kingdom
Former Reader in Political and Constitutional History, University of Dundee, Scotland. Author of The Most English Minister–The Policies and Politics of Palmerston.
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Lord Palmerston was an English Whig-Liberal statesman whose long career, including many years as British foreign secretary (1830–34, 1835–41, and 1846–51) and prime minister (1855–58 and 1859–65), made him a symbol of British nationalism. The christening of Henry John Temple in the “House of…
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