William Pitt Cobbett (26 July 1853 in Adelaide, South Australia – 17 October 1919 in Hobart, Tasmania) was an Australian academic, jurist, and editor....
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William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an...
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Burke, William Cobbett, William Playfair, John Reeves, and Samuel Johnson (the last through the pension granted him in 1762). Though the Pitt government did...
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had won the Butterworths Prize for Most Proficient in First Year, the Pitt Cobbett Prize for Administrative Law, the Sir Alexander Beattie Prize in Company...
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Garton (?2004-2009?) Shane White (?2010-2021?) Chris Hilliard (2022-) Pitt Cobbett (1890-1909) John Peden (1910-1941) James Williams (1942-1946) Kenneth...
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Sydney Law School has produced a prominent group of alumni. 1890–1910: Pitt Cobbett 1910–1942: John Peden 1942–1946: James Williams 1946–1947: Clive Teece...
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of property at Sydney University. He practised law until he succeeded Pitt Cobbett as Challis Professor of law and Dean of the Faculty in 1910. Under Peden...
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university as a clerk in the public service. While at university he won the Pitt Cobbett Prize for Constitutional Law (1912) and sat on the Committee of the university's...
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and opposing radical causes and revolution. The radical writer William Cobbett was among those who attacked what they saw as Wilberforce's hypocrisy in...
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– 1946 Succeeded by Ernest Farrar Academic offices Preceded by Prof. Pitt Cobbett Challis Professor of Law at the University of Sydney Dean of the Sydney...
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would appear on examination papers. He was awarded two major prizes: the Pitt Cobbett Prize for Constitutional Law and the Sir John Peden Memorial Prize for...
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Bachelor of Laws (1927) with first class honours, while also winning the Pitt Cobbett Prize for constitutional law in 1924. From 1921 to 1927, Kitto worked...
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the Sydney Law School. Although the Dean of the school at the time, Pitt Cobbett, would by all accounts never have permitted a woman to enrol, he was...
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councillors named in the 1858 proclamation were: Francis Corbet Singleton, Pitt Cobbett, George William Chinner, William Home Popham, and William Voules Brown...
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Duke of Wellington and Frederick Robinson. Some radicals, notably William Cobbett, claimed a "cover-up" within the government and viewed the verdict and...
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The Spirit of the Age (section Mr. Cobbett)
not he. He has not one Mrs. Cobbett among his opinions." —William Hazlitt, "Mr. Cobbett", The Spirit of the Age But Cobbett is not dishonest, servile,...
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Source: Bodleian Libraries. Cobbett's Parliamentary History, Vol 29 (supra) at p. 1268. Via Digital Bodleian. Cobbett's Parliamentary History, Vol 29...
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chiefly employed, however, as editor of Cobbett's Parliamentary History, Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates and Cobbett's State Trials. Of the two former he took...
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from 1802, was the trusted lieutenant of British prime minister William Pitt and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the late 18th century. Dundas...
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for Northampton. A follower of William Pitt the Younger, Perceval always described himself as a "friend of Mr. Pitt", rather than a Tory. He was opposed...
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death. His son Thomas Curson Hansard took over the business of William Cobbett in 1812, and added the name "Hansard" to the title of the official reports...
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Old Sarum (UK Parliament constituency) (category William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham)
Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to...
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they came under criticism from figures such as Thomas Paine and William Cobbett. It was argued in defence of such boroughs that they provided stability...
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Cornély. pp. 184, 322–323. Retrieved 29 April 2020. Cobbett 1818 c.988–9 Cobbett 1818 c.1009 Cobbett 1818 c.1021 "The Royal Arms of Canada – A Short History"...
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tree on his farm. In 1819, English agrarian radical journalist William Cobbett, who in 1793 had published a hostile continuation of Francis Oldys (George...
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the Privy Council—which Pitt had tasked with investigating the slave trade—had not produced its report. On 9 May 1788, Pitt introduced a motion to the...
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the original on 27 February 2024. Retrieved 30 August 2017. Cobbett, William (1817). Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England. Grant's Old and New Edinburgh...
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Bath (UK Parliament constituency) (category William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham)
best-known representatives have been the two with international profiles: William Pitt the Elder (Prime Minister 1766–1768) and Chris Patten, the last Governor...
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Introductory History, London: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-312-16331-2 Cobbett, William (1816), Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England, Bagshaw Devereaux, Simon...
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Kingsmill was husband to Rachael Pitt (died 1690), the second daughter of Edward Pitt the eldest son of Sir William Pitt (1559–1636), MP, kt. 1618, Comptroller...
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