Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley
British Whig politician (1794-1888)
Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley, GCB, PC (22 February 1794 – 28 December 1888), was a British Whig politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1839 to 1857. He is the second-longest serving Speaker of the House of Commons, behind Arthur Onslow.
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Quotes
edit- What is that fat gentleman in such a passion about?
- As a young boy, on hearing Charles James Fox speak in Parliament: cited in G. W. E. Russell, Collections and Recollections (1898), ch. 11
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