2-717-503 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Richard Cobden', c1850, (c1884). Richard Cobden (1804-1865) English manufacturer, Radical and Liberal statesman, educated locally with further study at the London Institution. An advocate for free trade, he founded the Anti-Corn Law League with John Bright and was associated with the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty. From "Leaders of the Senate: A Biographical History of the Rise and Development of the British Constitution, Vol. I.", by Alexander Charles Ewald, F.S.A. [William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Berlin]