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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 63,294x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,196x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,621x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,193x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,497x
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Quotes
- “Never was the military spirit half so rampant in this country since 1815 as at the present time. Look at the news from Rangoon...This makes 5400 persons killed by our ships in the East during the last five years, without our having lost one man by the butcheries. Now give me Free Trade as the recognized policy of all parties in this country, and I will find the best possible argument against these marauding atrocities.”
- “The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue...nor afford us any exclusive trade...is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.”
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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
Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Richard Cobden, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Cobden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.