Andrew Bisset (barrister)

Andrew Bisset (1803-?), was an English barrister and historical writer. His writing was an influence on Henry George, who cites Bisset’s "Strength of Nations", in the notes to "Progress and Poverty". [ [http://www.econlib.org/LIBRARY/YPDBooks/George/grgPPNotes.html Footnotes; George, Progress and Poverty: Library of Economics and Liberty ] ]

Life

He graduated B.A. from Magdalen College, Cambridge in 1826. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1839. [ [http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/full/27/1/lt-18520606-TC-KAVE-01 The Carlyle Letters Online ] ]

He was a researcher for Richard Cobden, probably from the early 1840s,preparing a report in 1845 on agricultural districts. [Anthony Howe (editor), The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume I: 1815-1847 (2008), note p. 50.] [ [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=182-cobden&cid=23 The National Archives | Access to Archives ] ] In the 1850s he worked for the Anti-Corn Law League; his father-in-law was T. P. Thompson, of the League. He had a commission to write on English history, particularly land law. [ Anthony Howe, Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 (1997), p. 6.] His later writings moved into Parliamentary history.

Works

*A Practical Treatise on the Law of Estates for Life (1842)
*Memoirs and papers of Sir Andrew Mitchell, K. B. (1850) editor
*On the Strength of Nations (1859)
*Omitted Chapters of the History of England from the death of Charles I to the battle of Dunbar (1864)
*History of the Commonwealth of England (1867) revised from Omitted Chapters
*Essays on Historical Truth (1871)
*The History of the Struggle for Parliamentary Government in England (1877)
*A Short History of the English Parliament. (1883) 2 vols.
*Notes on the Anti-Corn Law Struggle (1884)

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