Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British Anglo-Irish politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom …

Lord Palmerston, English Whig-Liberal statesman whose long career, including many years as British foreign secretary (1830–34, 1835–41, and 1846–51) and prime minister (1855–58 and 1859–65), …

Lord Palmerston became enormously popular thanks to his assertive and ‘manly’ foreign policy which proclaimed Britain’s values as a model for the world to follow. He served in government for 46...

The Town of Palmerston located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada was founded and named after Lord Palmerston in 1875. Palmerston is now part of the amalgamated town of Minto.

When the Crimean War broke out in 1854, Palmerston played a key role in coordinating the conflict and forming war aims. Ultimately, with the fall of Aberdeen, Palmerston was the obvious candidate to …

Palmerston sits like a delicate necklace in the blue body of the Pacific, its coral reef and white beaches strung with six sandy motu scattered through it and a surrounding vast lagoon.

May 29, 2025 · Can you visit Palmerston in the Cook Islands? Find out how to visit, things to do and where to stay in this Palmerston travel guide.

Palmerston proclaimed his neutrality during the American Civil War, but his every gesture offered moral and material support to the Confederacy. To ardent Northerners such as the historian George …

Palmerston was a leading figure in foreign policy at the height of Britain’s imperial ambitions for almost thirty years, and handled many great international crises at the time. So much so, many argue that …

Palmerston sat in the House of Commons for nearly fifty-eight years, a political career that only ended because of his death. During that long span, his political loyalties shifted from right to left; he began …