Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. He began his parliamentary career as a Tory and ended it as a Liberal.
The Viscount Palmerston | |
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| Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
| In office 6 February 1855 – 19 February 1858 12 June 1859 – 18 October 1865 | |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Aberdeen The Earl of Derby |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Derby The Earl Russell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 October 1784 Broadlands, Hampshire |
| Died | 18 October 1865 (aged 80) Brocket, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Liberal |
He is best remembered for his leading of British foreign policy in a period of time when the United Kingdom was at its strongest. He served as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister. Some of his actions, now sometimes called 'liberal interventionist', were disliked by the Queen and by many of his fellow politicians.
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Media
Temple (age 18) in 1802, by Thomas Heaphy
The British Empire at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815
Statue of Palmerston in Parliament Square, London, by Thomas Woolner
Statue of Palmerston in Southampton
Palmerston (age 50), c. 1830s–1840s
British bombardment of Canton from the surrounding heights, May 1841
Portrait of Emily Lamb, then Countess Cowper, by William Owen, ca. 1810
Battle of Inkerman, November 1854
Lord Palmerston, c. 1855 by Francis Cruikshank
