"Squire Leech" and "Caged Rats" were two of the poems in the eponymous set of rhymes criticizing them and written by Ebenezer Elliot.
"Squire Leech" and "Caged Rats" were two of the poems in the eponymous set of rhymes criticizing them and written by Ebenezer Elliot. George Bentinck was one of their leading supporters, and Edward Smith-Stanley resigned over calls for their immediate removal, while a resolution condemning them was annually introduced by Charles Pelham Villiers. An initial attempt at reform came in the form of a sliding scale proposed by William Huskisson, but eventually a league opposing their existence and led by John Bright and Richard Cobden, as well as the onset of the An Gorta Mor, forced their repeal by Robert Peel. FTP, identify these unpopular 19th Century Britain protectionist measures concerning a certain grain.
"Squire Leech" and "Caged Rats" were two of the poems in the eponymous set of rhymes criticizing them and written by Ebenezer Elliot.
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