Peter Douglas Brown (born 7 June 1925) is an historian of eighteenth-century British politics. Brown was born in

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on 7 June 1925. He was educated at

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and

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

."Notes on Contributors", Karl Schweizer (ed.), ''Lord Bute: Essays in Re-interpretation'' (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1988). He is a Fellow of the

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. On 24 March 1982, he chaired a meeting to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the

Great Reform Act The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced major changes to the electo ...

at the

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."Court Circular", ''The Times'' (26 March 1982), p. 10.

Works

*''The Chathamites: A Study in the Relationship between Personalities and Ideas in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century'' (London: Macmillan, 1967). *''William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: The Great Commoner'' (London: Allen & Unwin, 1978). *(editor, with

Karl W. Schweizer Karl Wolfgang Schweizer is a historian specialising in eighteenth century European history. Education and academic career Schweizer was born in Germany and was educated at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he gradua ...

), ''The Devonshire Diary. William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire. Memoranda on State Affairs, 1759–1762'' (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1982).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Peter Douglas 1925 births Possibly living people Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Historical Society People educated at Harrow School