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For the Defense: Thomas Erskine, the Most Enlightened Liberal of His Times, 1750-1823
For the Defense: Thomas Erskine, the Most Enlightened Liberal of His Times, 1750-1823
For the Defense: Thomas Erskine, the Most Enlightened Liberal of His Times, 1750-1823
For the Defense: Thomas Erskine, the Most Enlightened Liberal of His Times, 1750-1823
For the Defense: Thomas Erskine, the Most Enlightened Liberal of His Times, 1750-1823

For the Defense: Thomas Erskine, the Most Enlightened Liberal of His Times, 1750-1823

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xi, [3], 624 pp. A biography of Thomas Erskine, the British lawyer and Whig politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents. He achieved widespread recognition for his successful defence of radicals, including Thomas Paine, John Horne Tooke, and Thomas Hardy, who were accused of seditious libel and treason. The author was himself a noted trial lawyer.