id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2974 John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton - Wikipedia .html text/html 5165 626 69 John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. Meanwhile, Acton became the editor of the Roman Catholic monthly paper, The Rambler, in 1859, upon John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman's retirement from the editorship.[13] In 1862, he merged this periodical into the Home and Foreign Review. With all his capacity for study, he was a man of the world and a man of affairs, not a bookworm.[6] His only notable publications were a masterly essay in the Quarterly Review of January 1878 on "Democracy in Europe;" two lectures delivered at Bridgnorth in 1877 on "The History of Freedom in Antiquity" and "The History of Freedom in Christianity"—these last the only tangible portions put together by him of his long-projected "History of Liberty;" and an essay on modern German historians in the first number of the English Historical Review, which he helped to found (1886). "Review of Lectures on Modern History by the late Right Honourable John Edward Emerich, First Baron Acton; edited by J. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2974.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2974.txt