Born in 1800, died in 1859; educated at Cambridge; admitted
to the bar in 1826; member of Parliament, 1830-34; member of
the Supreme Council in India, 1834-38; member of Parliament,
1839-47; Secretary of War, 1839-41; paymaster-general,
1846-47; again in Parliament in 1852; raised to the peerage
in 1857; his "History of England" published in 1848-61; his
"Lays of Ancient Rome" in 1842.
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