Note 30 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
It is to Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Bart, (now Lord Lytton), that the public is indebted for the Newspaper Duty Reduction Act of 1836; and it is to Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P., that is mainly due the distinction of having effected, in 1855, the abolition of the “Tax upon Knowledge” as the Newspaper Duty was then designated.