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Henry Brougham (1778-1868), 1st Baron Brougham (pronounced ‘broom’) and Vaux, was a Scottish lawyer and statesman, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery, for Parliamentary Reform and for free trade, which made him popular with the general public. He made far-reaching contributions to reform in education, helping to found University College, London, and as Lord Chancellor from 1830 to 1834 also to the the law and the criminal courts. Brougham won further applause in 1820 as defence counsel for Queen Caroline, when her husband King George IV (who as Prince Regent had forced her to keep to the Continent) began divorce proceedings in the most public and humiliating manner he could. Brougham also invented the horse-drawn carriage which bears his name.
