Opening Address by Lord Houghton, President of the Society.

MILNES, Richard Monckton. [The Right Honorable Lord Houghton].

$975.00

Item Number: 112568

Rare first edition of Lord Houghton’s Opening Address before the Norwich Congress of the Social Science Association. Octavo, bound in three quarters contemporary calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “with the best regards of Houghton.” In very good condition.

English poet, patron of literature and politician Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton was elected to Parliament in 1837 as member for Pontefract as a Conservative. In parliament he interested himself particularly in the question of copyright and the conditions of reformatory schools. His literary career was often influenced by church matters and he published two volumes of verse in 1838, Memorials of Residence upon the Continent and Poems of Many Years, Poetry for the People in 1840 and Palm Leaves in 1844. He also wrote a Life and Letters of Keats in 1848. In 1868, Lord Houghton was elected to the Royal Society and in 1870, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.