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  • 1st Baron Acton of Aldenham, oil painting by Franz von Lenbach; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
    In John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton: Life

    His inaugural Lecture on the Study of History (published in 1895) made a great impression in the university, and his influence on historical study was felt. He delivered two valuable courses of lectures on the French Revolution and on modern history, but it was in private that…

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