Mark Pack

This biography first appeared in the Dictionary of Liberal Biography, produced by the Liberal Democrat History Group. Charles Grey, second Earl Grey, Viscount Howick and Baron Grey, was the Prime Minister who oversaw the Great Reform Act of 1832, which overhauled the country’s parliamentary electoral system and was the culmination of two years of intense [...] »

This biography first appeared in the Dictionary of Liberal Biography, produced by the Liberal Democrat History Group. Right from his London birth on 15 March 1779, at Melbourne House in Piccadilly, William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne, was at the centre of Whig social circles. The second son of Peniston Lamb, first Viscount Melbourne, he followed [...] »

This was my contribution to the collection of historical counter-factuals, President Gore...: and Other Things That Never Happened. The general election of July and August 1830 took place in an atmosphere of intense political crisis. The 1829 harvest had been very poor and food prices rose sharply. Widespread agricultural riots and organised protests spread, triggered [...] »

I wrote this book review of Lord Brougham and the Whig Party by Arthur Aspinall for the Journal of Liberal History, Issue 55. The book was first published in 1927 and republished in the edition reviewed in 2005. Lawyer, orator, politician and prolific writer of letters, articles, history and even a three volume romance, Henry [...] »