Richard Cobden
1804 – 1865
English

A member of the British parliament and an economist, he fervently preached the benefits of free trade.

Contemporaries
1759–1833William Wilberforce
1858–1943Beatrice Webb
1759–1836Charles Simeon
1839–1894Walter Pater
1857–1928Emmeline Pankhurst
1743–1805William Paley
1737–1809Thomas Paine
1834–1896William Morris
1766–1834Thomas Malthus
1800–1859Thomas Macaulay
1865–1936Rudyard Kipling
1795–1821John Keats
1820–1903Herbert Spencer
1832–1902G. A. Henty
1804–1881Benjamin Disraeli
1788–1824Lord George Byron
1778–1840George Brummell
1754–1825Thomas Bowdler
1757–1827William Blake
1847–1933Annie Besant
1775–1817Jane Austen
1822–1888Matthew Arnold