Richard Cobden
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Richard Cobden 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.
Cobden c. early 1860s
Richard Cobden wearing an Ambassodors badge reading "La Loi", "The Law". Painted by Ary Scheffer
Cobden's Manchester home on Quay Street.
Statue of Richard Cobden outside St Ann's Church, Manchester
Cobden–Chevalier Treaty
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The Cobden–Chevalier Treaty was an Anglo-French free trade agreement signed between the United Kingdom and France on 23 January 1860. After Britain began free trade policies in 1846, there remained ta
Richard Cobden
…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…
Lord Palmerston addressing the House of Commons during the debates on the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty in February 1860, as painted by John Phillip (1863)