John Bright

John Bright ( born November 16, 1811 in Rochdale, Lancashire, † March 27, 1889 ) was a British politician and most important ally Richard Cobden. He was a representative of the radicals.

Origin

John Bright was like his father, Jacob Bright, a Quaker. This ran a cotton manufactory. At 15, John Bright began working for his father.

Work

In 1836 or 1837 Bright met for the first time Richard Cobden, 1838, he campaigned publicly for the first time against the Corn Laws, and in 1839 he sat on the committee that the Anti-Corn Law League founded. Bright was a significant Rethoriker and coined the saying, among other things Flogging a Dead Horse. He drove the significant British parliamentary reform of 1867 ahead with. He sat down for a lifting of import duties on cereals one, supported the Irish Home Rule and was a major opponent of various foreign policy initiatives of the British Empire.