William Brougham, 2d Baron Brougham and Vaux
1795–1886
Law reformer. Brother of Henry Peter Brougham. BA, Cambridge (Jesus College), 1819. Called to the bar, 1823. Whig MP for Southwark, 1831–5. Appointed master in Chancery, 1831. Instrumental in the abolition of the office of master in Chancery in 1852.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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