Richard Cobden
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 03 June 1804
- Died
- 02 April 1865
- Works
- 85
Top works
- 1793 and 1853, in three letters
- The new emigration scheme
- England, Ireland, and America
- The war upon American commerce
- Distress of the country
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 61,615x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 58,105x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,741x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,128x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,528x
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Key facts
- 1841 1847
- Member of Parliament for Stockport
- 1847 1857
- Member of Parliament for West Riding of Yorkshire
- 1859 1865
- Member of Parliament for Rochdale
- Born
- ( 1804-06-03 ) 3 June 1804, Dunford, Heyshott , Sussex , England
- Died
- 2 April 1865 (1865-04-02) (aged 60), Suffolk Street, Westminster, London , England
- Resting place
- West Lavington , Sussex
- Party
- Liberal , Independent Radical
- Occupation
- Politician
- Profession
- Manufacturer
- Known for
- Campaigner
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1804
- Died
- 1 January 1865
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Heyshott
- Place of death
- London
- Child
- Jane Cobden
- Occupation
- factory owner
- Political party
- Liberal Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Richard Cobden, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was a British Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace. He was associated with the Anti–Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty.
As a young man, Cobden was a successful commercial traveller who became co-owner of a highly profitable calico printing factory in Sabden but lived in Manchester, a city with which he would become strongly identified. However, he soon found himself more engaged in politics, and his travels convinced him of the virtues of free trade (anti-protection) as the key to better international relations.
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1804 births1865 deaths19th-century British politicians19th-century English businesspeopleAnglican pacifistsCobden familyCouncillors in ManchesterEnglish libertariansLiberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituenciesMembers of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for RochdaleMembers of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for StockportPeople from Heyshott