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Friends in Council — First Series
Arthur Helps was born at Streatham on the 10th of July, 1813. He went at the age of sixteen to Eton, thence to Trinity College, Cambridge. Having graduated B.A. in 1835, he became private secretary to the Hon. T. Spring Rice, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Melbournes Cabinet, formed in April, 1835. This was his position at the beginning of the present reign in June, 1837. In 1839in which year he graduated M.A.Arthur Helps was transferred to the service of Lord Morpeth, who was Irish Secretary in the same ministry. Lord Melbournes Ministry was succeeded by that of Sir Robert Peel in September, 1841, and Helps then was appointed a Commissioner of French, Danish, and Spanish Claims. In 1841 he published Essays Written in the Intervals of Business. Their quiet thoughtfulness was in accord with the spirit that had given value to his services as private secretary to two ministers of State. In 1844 that little book was followed by another on The Claims of Labour, dealing with the relations of employers to employed. There was the same scholarly simplicity and grace of style, the same interest in things worth serious attention. We say, he wrote, towards the close, that Kings are Gods Vicegerents upon Earth; but almost every human being has, at one time or other of his life, a portion of the happiness of those around him in his power, which might make him tremble, if he did but see it in all its fulness. To this book Arthur Helps added an essay On the Means of Improving the Health and Increasing the Comfort of the Labouring Classes. His next book was this First Series of Friends in Council, published in 1847, and followed by other series in later years. There were many other writings of his, less popular than they would have been if the same abilities had been controlled by less good taste. His History of the Conquest of the New World in 1848, and of The Spanish Conquest of America, in four volumes, from 1855 to 1861, preceded his obtaining from his University, in 1864, the honorary degree of D.C.L. In June, 1860, Arthur Helps was made Clerk of the Privy Council, and held that office of high trust until his death on the 7th of March, 1875. He had become Sir Arthur in 1872. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 7438
Author: Helps, Arthur
Release Date: Feb 1, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English
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