Romantic

Henry Brougham, Lord Brougham

1778–1868


Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), was a Scottish-born lawyer, reformer and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor from 1830 to 1834 and helped found the Edinburgh Review.

The epitaph here is the one James Parton printed under his name in his anthology of English humorous poetry.

  1. The Orator's Epitaph

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