Labouchere, Henry DuPre

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Labouchere, Lab" oo shar, Henry DuPre 1831-1912, an English journalist and member of Parliament, born in London. He studied at Eton and Cambridge and served from 1854 to 1864 as a diplomat in varions positions. In 1865 he first entered the English Parliament. Later he was correspondent for the London Daily News and sent dispatches to his paper from Paris during the siege of 1871 by means of carrier pigeons. In 1880 he was again elected to Parliament from Northampton, serving continuously for more than 20 years. He established and edited Truth, a society and political journal assisted in the investigation of the Jameson Raid of 1896 opposed the government in the Boer War and was an advocate of Irish Rome Rule.