The leading Radicals were John Bright and Richard Cobden, who represented the manufacturing towns that had gained representation under the Reform Act.

Writers such as John Bright and Richard Cobden opposed both aristocratic privilege and property, which they saw as an impediment to the development of a class of yeoman farmers.

The Anti-Corn Law League brought together a coalition of liberal and radical groups in support of free trade under the leadership of Richard Cobden and John Bright, who opposed militarism and public expenditure.

Classical liberals generally opposed colonialism ( as opposed to colonization ) and imperialism, including Adam Smith, Frédéric Bastiat, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Henry Richard, Herbert Spencer, H. R. Fox Bourne, Edward Morel, Josephine Butler, W. J.

In nineteenth century Britain there was a liberal internationalist strand of political thought epitomised by Richard Cobden and John Bright.

Richard Cobden, a British MP of the time, describes the events conducted by the British under Sir John Bowring the day after the prisoners ' release given in a speech to parliament:

Lord Palmerston Addressing the House of Commons During the Debates on the Cobden – Chevalier Treaty | Treaty of France in February 1860, as painted by John Phillip ( 1863 ).

Richard Cobden and John Ramsey McCulloch, both advocates of free trade, attacked the Conservative government's policies of privilege and protection, including their archaic postal system.

John Bright ( 16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889 ), Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League.

He is noted as being the voice in parliament of the free trade movement before the election of Richard Cobden and John Bright.

He advocated in its pages the cause of free trade long before it was popularized by Richard Cobden and John Bright.

Richard Cobden and John Bright were the two principal persons of the league while George Wilson, the president of the League, was in charge of administrative duties.

The benign intentions of the United States were also argued by John Bright and Richard Cobden, strong supporters of the United States and leaders of the Anti-Corn Law League in Britain.

In December he received particularly alarming letters from Richard Cobden and John Bright.

A keen reader, Crooks learned about reformers such as Richard Cobden and John Bright, and was asked by his fellow workers to speak out about their working conditions.

In the entrance hall, which has a mosaic glass roof, and ground-floor Sculpture Hall are statues and busts of people who made significant contributions to Manchester, the Anti Corn Law campaigners, Richard Cobden and John Bright, and scientists John Dalton and James Joule among many others.

The middle class Anti-Corn Law League founded in 1839, led by Richard Cobden and John Bright, opposed duties on imported grain which raised the price of food to help landowners but harmed manufacturers.

In 1863, during Cobden's dispute with The Times over its claims that his fellow Radical John Bright wanted to divide the land of the rich amongst the poor, Cobden read to a friend the passage in the Wealth of Nations which criticised primogeniture and entail.

* Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, M. P., Edited by John Bright and James E. Thorold Rogers, London, T. Fisher Unwin ( 1870 ).

He also prepared some of the material for the life of his friend and associate, Richard Cobden, which was written by John Morley, later Lord Morley.

A number of the rooms in the college are named after alumni and people associated with the college such as Cobden Hall named after the architect Thomas Cobden who designed the college building, the John England Room and the Therry Room amongst others.

Despite initial disagreements, after their failure their cause was taken up by the middle class Anti-Corn Law League founded by Richard Cobden and John Bright in 1839 to oppose duties on imported grain which raised the price of food and so helped landowners at the expense of ordinary people.

That is the doctrine not merely of Peel, of Disraeli, of Salisbury, and Chamberlain ; it is the doctrine of Gladstone ; it is the doctrine of Cobden ; it is the doctrine of Bright ; and it is the doctrine of Campbell Bannerman ... It is the doctrine of all the great Liberal leaders of the past and present ".

Cobden and Bright were against the protectionist Corn Laws and in a speech at Covent Garden on September 28, 1843 Cobden outlined this brand of internationalism:

The vote of censure was defeated by 313 votes to 295, with Palmerston's old enemies in the pacifist camp, Cobden and Bright, voting for him.

A magnificent speech by Macaulay heaping scorn on the " freedom of contract " arguments of Bright, Cobden and Pease was of immense importance in the debate but all the humanitarians – Shaftesbury, Oastler, Fielden and others were instrumental in securing passage of the Bill.

Cobden was an alderman of the newly formed Manchester Corporation, and Bright went to ask him to speak at an education meeting in Rochdale.

Among the speakers were Cobden and Bright, and the dinner is memorable as the first occasion on which the two future leaders appeared together on a Free Trade platform.

At the general election in 1841 Cobden was returned for Stockport, Cheshire and in 1843 Bright was the Free Trade candidate at a by-election at Durham.

Cobden had the calmness and confidence of the political philosopher, Bright had the passion and the fervour of the popular orator.

Cobden did the reasoning, Bright supplied the declamation, but mingled argument with appeal.

Mr Ewart's motion was defeated, but the movement of which Cobden and Bright were the leaders continued to spread.

" In London great meetings were held in Covent Garden Theatre, at which William Johnson Fox was the chief orator, but Bright and Cobden were the leaders of the movement.

Bright publicly deprecated the popular tendency to regard Cobden and himself as the chief movers in the agitation, and Cobden told a Rochdale audience that he always stipulated that he should speak first, and Bright should follow.

Bright was not violent, and Cobden said that he did his work admirably, and won golden opinions from all men.

In this session Bright and Cobden came into opposition, Cobden voting for the Maynooth Grant and Bright against it.

However, when Cobden High School played for and lost the state basketball championship in 1964, this mascot became the pride of Cobden and Southern Illinois, showing the world what a small town could really do.

Gladstone said " It was enough to make Peel and Cobden turn in their graves ".

The landlords claimed that manufacturers like Cobden wanted cheap food so they could decrease wages and thus maximise their profits, an opinion shared by the socialist Chartists.

Sir, the name which ought to be, and which will be associated with the success of these measures is the name of a man who, acting, I believe, from pure and disinterested motives, has advocated their cause with untiring energy, and by appeals to reason, expressed by an eloquence, the more to be admired because it was unaffected and unadorned — the name which ought to be and will be associated with the success of these measures is the name of Richard Cobden.

On the fourth night of the debate ( 3 March 1857 ), Lord Palmerston attacked Cobden and his speech as being pervaded by " an anti-English feeling, an abnegation of all those ties which bind men to their country and to their fellow-countrymen, which I should hardly have expected from the lips of any member of this House.

A group calling itself the Manchester Liberals, to which Richard Cobden and Richard Wright belonged, were staunch defenders of free trade, and their work was carried on, after the death of Richard Cobden in 1866, by The Cobden Club.

Bright and Cobden discussed the preparations of the government for war and the widespread doubts, including their own, of the legality of Wilkes ’ actions.

By 1909 Cobden Sanderson and his partner Emery Walker were at the height of a protracted and bitter dispute involving the rights to the Doves Type in the dissolution of their partnership.