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Author Melikan, Rose A

Title John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751-1838 : the Duty of Loyalty
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (392 pages)
Series Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Cambridge studies in English legal history.
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 A Man of laws; 2 An independent learned gentleman; 3 A government retainer; 4 Formal politics; 5 Engagement; 6 Setbacks; 7 Resolution; 8 Pater familias; 9 Upright intentions; 10 The King's man; 11 The practice of patronage; 12 Cut and thrust; 13 A servant may serve two masters; 14 Reform and revolution; 15 The speaker speaks; 16 Lord Endless; 17 Faithful defender; 18 Twilight of the State; Bibliography; Index
Summary John Scott, Lord Eldon (1751-1838) was an important English lawyer and a dominant figure in Georgian public life, and ranks among the most important Lord Chancellors in the long history of that office. This biography - the first in approximately one hundred and fifty years - traces Eldon's public career, from MP to Lord Chancellor
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Subject Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838.
SUBJECT Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838 fast
Subject Great Britain. Lord Chancellor's Department -- History
SUBJECT Great Britain. Lord Chancellor's Department fast
Subject Judges -- Great Britain -- Biography
Law -- Political aspects -- History
Judges
Law -- Political aspects
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511050725
0511050720