George Watson
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
128
1994
Herbert Butterfield once described Acton as 'by far the greatest historical thinker that England has ever had'. A friend of Gladstone and a member first of the House of Commons and then of the Lords he accumulated a vast library most of which is now in the University Library at Cambridge. It represents a man of cosmopolitan interests both as a campaigner against Papal Infallibility and then after 1870 for liberal causes. George Watson's text is a full account of the surviving books and papers.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
128
1994
Herbert Butterfield once described Acton as 'by far the greatest historical thinker that England has ever had'. A friend of Gladstone and a member first of the House of Commons and then of the Lords he accumulated a vast library most of which is now in the University Library at Cambridge. It represents a man of cosmopolitan interests both as a campaigner against Papal Infallibility and then after 1870 for liberal causes. George Watson's text is a full account of the surviving books and papers.