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Title: Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Bidwell, W.H. (Walter Hilliard), 1798-1881
Subjects: Courts and courtiers Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and the judgment and tact displayed by his lordshipin the congress at Paris have been the subject of no slightor partial praise among all classes. His discreet zeal in thematter of mooted reforms, both civU and religious, in theStates of the Italian peninsida, has also been desei\edlycommended. Lord Clarendon married in 1839 a sister of the presentEarl of Verulam, by whom he has a youthful family. Hewas created a G. C. B. (Civil) in 1838, and m 1849 re-warded Avith the knighthood of the Garter. Of his broth-ers, one has been recently advanced to the Bishopric ofCarlisle, and the other is the. Right Hon. Charles PelhamYiUiers, Judge-Advocate-General, and M. P. for Wolver-hampton, -Qliose early exertions in the cause of free tradeare not likely to be easily forgotten by the British public.A sister of the Earl of Clarendon, Lady Theresa Le^vis, isfavorably known as the authoress of the series of bio-graphical sketches entitled -Friends and Contemporaries ofthe Lord Chancellor Clarendon.
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LDIFadSir®^. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. With the accurate and imposing portrait of this re-nowned commander of British armies and hero of anhundred battles, and the conqueror of Napoleon on thememorable and sanguinary field of Waterloo, it is fittingto record a brief outline biographical sketch of his event-ful life. The portrait is lifelike. We have seen the orig-inal face often, and love to gaze upon one whose eyeshave looked out upon such tremendous scenes of battleand carnage. Arthur Wellesley, afterwards Duke of Wellington, wasbom at Dangan Castle in L-eland, on May 1, 1769. Mar-shal Ney, Goethe, and several of the greatest men of theage, were born in the same jcar. His father was LordMomington, an Irish nobleman, but he was of Normanblood, being lineally descended from the standard-bearer toHenry II., in his conquest of Ireland in the year 1100.His elder brother, who succeeded to the family honors, wasa man of great genius and capacity, who afterwards be-came Governor-General of I

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