Brougham, H: Lives Philosophers -

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Excerpt from Lives Philosophers: Of the Time of George III Henry brougham was born at Edinburgh on the 19th September, 1778. He was the eldest child of Henry Brougham, of Brougham in Westmoreland, and Scales Hall in Cumberland, and Eleanor, only child of Dr James Syme, one of the clergy of the city of Edinburgh. Through his father, he was the direct heir of a long line of lords and squires of Burgham or Brougham, who appear to have held the Westmoreland property, in almost unbroken continuity, from the time of Edward the Confessor; but he complains that none of his many ancestors ever rose above the dead level of respectable mediocrity. His maternal grandmother was the sister of Principal Robert son, the distinguished historian, and he considered he owed at least as much to his Celtic descent, through his mother, as to the Saxon blood of the ancient family of Brougham. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.