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See also:VILLIERS, See also:CHARLES See also:PELHAM (1802-1898) , See also:English states-See also:man, son of See also:George Villiers, See also:grandson of the 1st See also:earl of See also:Clarendon of the second (Villiers) creation, and See also:brother of the 4th earl (q.v.), was See also:born in See also:London on the 3rd of See also:January 1802, and educated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He read for the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, and became an See also:associate of the Benthamites and " philosophical radicals " of the See also:day. He was an assistant See also:commissioner to the Poor See also:Law See also:Commission (1832), and in 1833 was made by the See also:master of the Rolls, whose secretary he had been, a See also:chancery examiner of witnesses, holding this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office till 1852. In 1835 he was elected M.P. for See also:Wolverhampton, and retained his seat till his See also:death. He was the See also:pioneer of the See also:free-See also:trade See also:movement, and became prominent with See also:Cobden and See also:Bright as one of its See also:chief supporters, being indefatigable in pressing the need for free trade on the See also:House of See also:Commons, by See also:resolution and by See also:petition. After free trade triumphed in 1846 his importance in politics became rather See also:historical than actual, especially as he advanced to a See also:- VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)
venerable old See also:age; but he was See also:president of the Poor Law See also:Board, with a seat in the See also:Cabinet, from 1859 to 1866, and he did other useful See also:work in the Liberal reforms of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. Like Bright, he parted from Mr See also:Gladstone on See also:Home See also:Rule for See also:Ireland. He attended See also:parliament for the last time in 1895, and died on the 16th of January 1898.
End of Article: VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM (1802-1898)
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