JustSomeGuyJohn · @JustSomeGuyJohn
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One of my favourite monuments in is John Cam Hobhouse.
Radical, Bonapartist, friend of . He was in Paris for the and saw . Imprisoned for writing a political pamphlet, then MP within a year. Member of Government, ennobled as Baron Broughton.
He married a lady whose parents died in Verdun, caught in France at the end of the Peace of Amiens.
His brother was killed at .
His life demonstrates the turmoil in the early 19th century.

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