Peter Douglas Brown
Peter Douglas Brown is an historian of eighteenth-century British politics.
Brown was born in London on 7 June 1925. He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. On 24 March 1982, he chaired a meeting to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Great Reform Act at the Reform Club.
Works
- The Chathamites: A Study in the Relationship between Personalities and Ideas in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century.
- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: The Great Commoner.
- , The Devonshire Diary. William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire. Memoranda on State Affairs, 1759–1762.