Edwards, Henry

has biography | a une biographie: British Liberal politician and linseed merchant in the nineteenth century. His life showcases the inevitable imperial connections of the British elite of the Victorian period. He participated in the Crimean war; was present in the coronation of Russian Czars; was among the first to sail through the Suez canal, whose financing and later debt-servicing landed Egypt into a semi-colonial state; he also rode the newly Northern Pacific Railway, which served as a powerful tool of settler expansionism and disrupted Native American Communities. In Parliament, however, Edwards's interventions were principally around local concerns.
was born | est né: 1820
died in | est mort par: 4 February 1897
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Hansard; Jehu Junior, 'Statesman - No. CCCCXV. Mr. Henry Edwards, M.P.', Vanity Fair, 11 November 1882; Weymouth town charities; Smithsonian National Museum of American History

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