• Name: Brougham, Henry Peter
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 19  September  1778
• Death Date: 7  May  1868
• Occupation: lord chancellor

Brougham was a lawyer who made his name by defending John and Leigh Hunt, charged with seditious libel, in 1811. He helped launch the Edinburgh Review in 1802 and contributed many articles to it. He became king's counsel in 1827 and lord chancellor in 1830.

Godwin noted visiting him on 30 January 1817 with Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley'sJournal confirms this. The editors suggest that they may have been visiting over Shelley's Chancery case, or over concern for Leigh Hunt. The following day's entry seems to confirm the latter: ' P B S and L Hunt call: consultation; Brougham, B M , Wetherel, Horne, Longdil, L H and P B S' . There are then three more calls around this period. The next entries are for 1823 when Gdwin wrote to Brougham three times in quick succession. These letters are not in the Abinger collection. A similar spate of activity, including calls on Brougham takes place around April 1827, in October 1828, then in 1830 when Brougham became Chancellor. He wrote to Brougham on several occasions, and then on 1 February 1832, where the letter survives. Godwin was essentially pleading for a sinecure.

• MS. Abinger c. 20, fol. 53: 1 February 1832
• MS. Abinger c. 20, fols. 3-4: 20 April 1827
• DNB
• The journals of Mary Shelley, 1814–1844, ed. by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, 2 vols (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press, 1987)

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