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Liberalism portal. Politics portal. v. t. e. John Bright (16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889) was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies. A Quaker, Bright is most famous for battling the Corn Laws.
John Bright was a British reform politician and orator active in the early Victorian campaigns for free trade and lower grain prices. He was a co-founder of the Anti-Corn Law League, as well as campaigns for parliamentary reform. Bright was the eldest surviving son of Jacob Bright, a self-made.
John Bright (1908–1995) was an American biblical scholar and the author of several books, including the influential A History of Israel (1959), currently in its fourth edition (2000).
A biography of John Bright, a Victorian moralist and Liberal leader who campaigned for free trade, peace, and parliamentary reform. Learn about his involvement in the Anti-Corn Law League, the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty, and the American Civil War.
John Bright’s book arises out of a concern to find a unity between the Old Testament and the New Testament (p. 10) which will save the Bible, especially the Old Testament, from disuse and misuse (p. 9). The aim of his book is to show that such a unity exists.
John Bright was one of the greatest British statesmen of the nineteenth century. In a series of Punch cartoons in 1878, Bright featured alongside Disraeli and Gladstone as among...
Mills is suggestive concerning the particular character of Quakerism in the Rochdale area, but his study largely avoids directly addressing the relationship between politics and religion. Briggs, Asa, “John Bright,” in his Victorian People.
