Edwin Laurence Godkin

Life
1831-1902, b. Wicklow; son of James Godkin, infra; editor and author, History of Hungary (1853); special corr. for Times in Crimea, ‘53-55; Hawaii, Philippines; denounced Tammany Hall; hon. DCL Oxford; Godkin Lectures in Harvard established in his memory. DIB DUB

 

Notes
Justin McCarthy, ed., Irish Literature (1904); selects extract from Problems of Modern Democracy.

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