3-082-357 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lord Acton, 1895. 'The Right Hon. Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton...has been appointed Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge...Lord Acton...represented Carlow in the Liberal interest from 1859 to 1865...Since his elevation to the peerage he has spoken occasionally in the House of Lords, latterly as the representative of the Chief Secretary for Ireland. He was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen nearly three years ago...His excursions into journalism have been numerous...he conducted a weekly paper, the Chronicle, which met with little success...[He] has contributed many learned articles to many reviews, chiefly on the historical phases of theology...An article by him, which drew considerable attention to the Quarterly Review for January 1877, treated of "Wolsey and the Divorce of Henry VIII." with much originality and insight. There is in Lord Acton's writing a certain obscurity caused by his profundity of investigation; he has not made famous any special phrase...The University of Cambridge gave him her highest honour in 1888, when the future Regius Professor of Modern History was made a Doctor of Civil Law. In Germany Lord Acton's literary work is better known and appreciated than in this country'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.