Biographies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2011
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ACTON, LORD JOHN
1834–1902. Born in Sicily, Acton was educated in England and Germany. He first gained public recognition writing for liberal Catholic journals. He was a Liberal MP from 1858–65 and was made a peer by Gladstone, his friend, in 1869. In 1895 he became Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and in the years up to his death he planned the Cambridge Modern History. Acton never wrote a book, but was influential through his lectures and articles in periodicals. These are collected in Essays on Church and State (1952) and Essays on Freedom and Power (1948).
Chadwick 1998.
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- The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought , pp. 934 - 987Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011