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Eldon
/ ˈɛldən /
noun
- EldonJohn Scott17511838MBritishPOLITICS: statesmanLAW: jurist Earl of, title of John Scott. 1751–1838, British statesman and jurist; Lord Chancellor (1801–06, 1807–27): an inflexible opponent of parliamentary reform, Catholic emancipation, and the abolition of slavery
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The Chancellor, in acknowledging the condescension, intimated his ignorance of Lady Eldon's claim to such a notice.
Neither was a full-length of Eldon finished: a fine thing, to judge from the photograph we have seen.
Eldon's victims had died a lingering death, and the persecutor had made money out of their sufferings.
Jeffreys was openly brutal; while Eldon covered his tyranny under the 'most accomplished indifference.'
The Utilitarians saw in the dogged obstructiveness of Eldon and his like the one great obstacle to reform.
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