Dictionary of Liberal Biography

The Dictionary of Liberal Biography brings together in one volume the biographies of over 200 individuals who have made major contributions to the Liberal Party, SDP or Liberal Democrats, or the the development of British Liberalism.Significant new essays have been contributed by senior academics on some of Britain's most important historical figures, including William Gladstone, David Lloyd George and Jo Grimond. Liberal thinkers, including Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes; Victorian statesmen, such as Lord Aberdeen and Viscount Palmerston; and postwar MPs, including Jeremy Thorpe, Cyril Smith and David Penhaligon, have also been critically profiled. All the Liberal Democrat MPs elected in 1997, including Paddy Ashdown, and leading Liberal Democrat peers, such as Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins, are also included.