Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
British statesman and prime minister (1784-1865) · United Kingdom · Politicians · Died at 80
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Something wrong?Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, known as Lord Palmerston, was a British Anglo-Irish politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to his death in 1865. A member of the Tory, Whig and Liberal parties, Palmerston was also the first Liberal prime minister.
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Temple (age 18) in 1802, by Thomas Heaphy
The British Empire at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815
Statue of Lord Palmerston, Parliament Square, London, by Thomas Woolner
Statue of Palmerston in Southampton
Palmerston (age 50), c. 1830s-1840s
British bombardment of Canton from the surrounding heights, May 1841
Portrait of Emily Lamb, then Countess Cowper, by William Owen, ca. 1810Awards
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, known as Lord Palmerston, was a British Anglo-Irish politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to his death in 1865. A member of the Tory, Whig and Liberal parties, Palmerston was also the first Liberal prime minister. An ideologue of free trade and a major sponsor of the Opium Wars against the Chinese Empire and the war against Egypt, he dominated British foreign policy from 1830 to 1865 when Britain stood at the height of its imperial power.
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