Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston made a career in public life at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston as British statesman and prime minister (1784–1865).
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston was born in 1784. His recorded nationality is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was educated at University of Edinburgh and Harrow School.
The eighteenth century organised knowledge into academies, expeditions and collections, and turned patronage into something closer to a profession.
The record gives his occupations as politician.
His affiliations include University of Glasgow.
Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.
Working from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston died in 1865 at the age of 81. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- Affiliated with University of Glasgow
- Educated at University of Edinburgh, Harrow School and St John's College
- Worked as politician
