Henry John Temple, 3d Viscount Palmerston
1784–1865
Statesman. Succeeded to the peerage in 1802. Secretary, War Office, 1809–28. Foreign secretary, 1830–41 and 1846–52. Home secretary, 1852–5. Prime minister, 1855–8 and 1859–65. FRS 1853.
Sources
ODNB
Record of the Royal Society of London
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.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
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