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Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston.
British statesman and prime minister (1784–1865)
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About Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, known as Lord Palmerston, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858 and from 1859 to his death in 1865. A member of the Tory, Whig and Liberal parties, Palmerston was also the first Liberal prime minister. An ideologue of free trade and a major sponsor of the Opium Wars against the Chinese Empire and the war against Egypt, he dominated British foreign policy from 1830 to 1865 when Britain stood at the height of its imperial power.
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- politician
- Position held
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Leader of the Opposition, Home Secretary, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- October 20, 1784
- Died
- October 18, 1865