William Brougham, second Baron Brougham and Vaux

(1795-1886)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Brougham, William, 1795-1884 NRA: Brougham, William (1795-1886) 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux DNB: Brougham, William, second Baron Brougham and Vaux (1795-1886), law reformer LBT ID: LdBroug2 LOC ID: no95000547	B/BAP: 1795-09-26 DIED: 1886-01-03
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The brother of Henry Brougham; educated at Edinburgh High School and Jesus College, Cambridge; he was MP for Southwark (1831-35), master in chancery (1835-52), and a contributor to the Times.
REFERENCES TO William Brougham, second Baron Brougham and Vaux: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 27 February 1831 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Lord Brougham to Francis Hodgson, [1849] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 16 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XXIII. 1840-52. Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. IX: 1830-31