... The Tories would be more divided than at any time since the repeal of the Corn Laws with their fundamental articleof faith. - Labour(which currently lies about Clarke being the man d!fi“hr most”; in fact, they relish the prospect) would hlwaflddxlyaploidngthk ...

... passion for free trade that saw him-found the ‘ magazine, originally as a onesheet newspaper whose aim was to support the Corn Laws. - Wilson continued to edit the . Economist until 1857, three ‘years before his death. The .magazine remained in his family ...

... nation of people starved of their own cultural history, who at school were taught about the Romans, Ancient Egypt and the Corn Laws (whatever they were). - | appeal to MSPs to look to their consciences and reward this great man suitably, by raising a bust ...

... the limitations of their natural resources, as was demonstrated as long ago as 1819 by David Ricardo. The repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 by Britain represented a conscious decision to concentrate on manufacturing (at which we were then rather good) at ...

... Edinburgh, whose best known prescription was for Gregory's Powder; 1865 Richard Cobden, statesman who worked for repeal of Corn Laws, 1872 Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse Code; 1928 Theodore Richards, chemist and America’s first winner of Nobel prize for ...

... job 150 years before himcreating the modern police force in the process—before becoming prime minister and repealing the Corn Laws. Review coverage a cert. Book Scan N/R Walter Isaacson Einstein: His Life and Universe Simon & Schuster, sth, h/b, £25, ...

... Cashel but transferred to an English constituency when he became Chief Secretary of Ireland hit 1812-111. He repealed the Corn Laws which protected British agriculture against imported grain when faced with widespread hunger here when he was prime minister ...

... comparative advantage in felation to free trade but David Ritardo, who used the principle to argue afamst the protectionist Corn Laws of the early 1800 s. : italism highly informative; but unduly ‘optimistic about a monetary system which has ‘created wealth ...

... by a British prime minister in the early 19th century. Lord Melbourne embarked on an attempt (which failed) to repeal the Corn Laws. He told his cabinet members that he did not know whether the measure would increase or reduce the price of bread, but they ...

... party fora g:n-eration. “Rotten potatoes have done it” was the Duke of Wellington's mssonse to Peel’s decision to repeal the Corn Laws in the wake of the failure of the Irish potato crop and the result- ing famine. There may be no such succinct judgment possible ...

... British politics, proved on five occasions between 1846 and 1931. In 1846, the Tories split on the issue of the repeal of the Corn Laws; there was no Tory government with a workable majority till 1874.bg1 1886, the Liberals split over llome rule for Ireland; ...

... medieval survivals and mercantilist theory shackled economic enterprise. Pitt’s true successor was Peel who, by abolishing the Corn Laws, though most of his party wanted to retain them, inaugurated the age of free trade and economic laissez-faire. His disciple ...