The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical and anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present (14784326183)

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Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884
Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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remier in iS27,he offered the Chancellorshipto Sir John Copley, who was then created Lord Lyndhurst. He held theoffice through the ministries of Goderich and Wellington; but wasdisplaced by Lord Grey, when he accepted the office of Lord Chief Baronof the Exchequer. On the resignation of Lord Melbourne, in 1834, Lord Lyndhurstagain became Chancellor. The Wellington ministry lasted only a fewmonths, but was signalized by the passing of several important measures.In 1840 Lord Lyndhurst was elected Lord High Steward of the Universityof Cambridge; and in the following year, on the downfall of theMelbourne administration, was, for the third time, appointed Chancellor.He held office through the ministr>^ of Sir Robert Peel; supported thegrant to IMaynooth, and the repeal of the Corn Laws ; and finally retiredfrom the Chancellorship in 1846. * Coplev died in 1815, a.s:ed 78, having lived to Nvitness the early forensic triumphsof his son, whose portrait he painted the year before his death.
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AOTHOB DPTHE HITNCHBACK SHERIDAN KNOWLES. 397 Although now approaching towards the completion of his eighthdecade, the talents and influence of this illustrious man had suffered nodiminution. He was prominent in the great Bridgwater case; hepleaded for the removal of Jewish disabilities ; he foresaw, and warnedthe peers against, the aggressive tendencies of the Roman Church ; and,at the age of eighty-five, put himself at the head of the opposition to thescheme of the Wensleydale Peerage, which involved the question ot Life Peers. Towards the last, it must have been a noble and touchingsight, that of this old man eloquent, on the very verge of ninety, withtottering gait and shrunken limbs, grasping the hand-rail purposelyattached to the bench below, holding the House entranced by the verbaardentta, the forcible and polished rhetoric of an earlier day, as if to showhow independent of time and matter is the immortal principle of whichthese are but the accidents. To him, as the serenest a