id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6195 John Bright - Wikipedia .html text/html 8514 720 74 John Bright (16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889) was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies. He had been all over England and Scotland addressing vast meetings and, as a rule, carrying them with him; he had taken a leading part in a conference held by the Anti-Corn Law League in London had led deputations to the Duke of Sussex, to Sir James Graham, then home secretary, and to Lord Ripon and Gladstone, the secretary and under secretary of the Board of Trade; and he was universally recognised as the chief orator of the Free Trade movement. Speeches on Parliamentary Reform by John Bright, Esq., M.P., delivered during the autumn of 1866 to the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, at Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin, and London; Revised by Himself. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6195.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6195.txt