Brougham Lord Henry



Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux and Designer of the Conveyance Which Bears His Name, Free Frank







FF inscribed overall and signed by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1768-1868) as "H Brougham" at lower left. Dated March 25, 1828 and inscribed "Mrs T. F. Ellis, 15 Bedford Place, London." With "Free" stamped philatelic marking at upper right corner. The address leaf measuring 5.75" x 3.375" is attached to a scrapbook album half-page (hinged at its left and right sides) and inscribed above with Brougham's biographical information. From the Collection of Norman Boas of Seaport Autographs and purchased at Christie's December 5, 2017 sale.







Henry Brougham's correspondent was the wife of Thomas Flowers Ellis (1796-1861), a Trinity College graduate who passed the bar in 1824. Ellis was a close friend of Thomas Babington Macaulay, later functioning as the essayist's legal executor and posthumous literary editor. Ellis is famous for coauthoring three influential legal treatises published between the 1830s-1860s. Little is known about Ellis's wife except that she mothered two children and died in 1839.







Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux was a Scottish lawyer, opinionated journalist, and later Whig statesman in the British House of Commons who championed the abolition of the slave trade. Brougham served as William IV's Lord Chancellor between 1830-1834. Among Brougham's other achievements: he designed the light 4-wheeled horse-drawn carriage that bears his name; he first popularized Cannes, France as a favorite watering hole of English tourists; and he still holds the record for the longest continuous speech delivered in the House of Commons (6 hours in 1828).







Provenance: Ex-Christie's December 5, 2017 sale; Ex-Norman Boas, Seaport Autographs







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