The Social Science Congress at New York: Lord Brougham, the president, delivering his address in the Festival Concert-room, 1864. Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor and played a prominent role in passing the Reform Act 1832 and Slavery Abolition Act 1833. He was one of the founders of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.