James Brudenell, Earl na 7 na Cardigan

Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, KCB (16 ga Oktoba 1797 - 28 ga Maris 1868) ya kasance jami'in Sojojin Burtaniya wanda ya umarci Brigade Light a lokacin Yaƙin Crimea, yana jagorantar bala'in cajinsa a yakin Balaclava . [2] A duk rayuwarsa a siyasa da kuma dogon aikin soja, Cardigan ya kasance mai girman kai da kuma aristocrat na lokacin. Ci gabansa ta hanyar sojojin Burtaniya ya kasance alama ce ta abubuwan da suka faru na rashin iyawa, amma kuma ta hanyar karimci ga mutanen da ke ƙarƙashin umurninsa da jaruntaka ta gaskiya. A matsayinsa na memba na aristocracy, ya yi tsayayya da kowane gyare-gyare na siyasa a Burtaniya amma, a shekarar karshe ta rayuwarsa, ya sauƙaƙe kuma ya yarda cewa irin wannan gyare- gyare-gine zai kawo fa'ida ga dukkan al'umma. 

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An haifi James Brudenell a cikin abin da ya kasance, bisa ga ka'idodin Iyalin Brudenell, wani gida mai kyau a Hambleden, Buckinghamshire ga Robert Brudenell da matarsa Penelope Brudenell.  A watan Fabrairun 1811 mahaifinsa ya gaji yankin Cardigan, tare da manyan kadarori da kudaden shiga da uba tafi tare da shi, da kuma wurin zama na Deene Park, Northamptonshire. James ya zama "Lord Brudenell", kuma ya zauna a daya daga cikin manyan gidaje, yana da shekaru goma sha huɗu.

Ya yi karatu a Harrow inda, duk da tsoron danginsa cewa raunin da ya faru tun yana yaro ya haifar da faɗuwar haɗari daga doki ya lalata hankalinsa sosai, ya nuna iyawa a Helenanci da Latin. Ya sami ci gaba mai kyau a ilimi, amma bayan ya warware jayayya da wani dalibi ta hanyar shirya gwagwarmaya, mahaifinsa ya cire shi daga makaranta (an yarda da gwagwarmayar a Harrow; gaskiyar cewa Brudenell ya sami horo saboda rashin izini yayin da yake da kasusuwa a hannunsa wanda likitan London ya halarta wanda ya fusata jarumin).  Daga baya ya sami ilimi a gida. A nan, a matsayin ɗa guda ɗaya daga cikin 'yan'uwa mata bakwai, ya zama wani abu na yaro mai lalacewa, wanda ya saba da samun hanyarsa. An ga wannan a matsayin dalilin girman kai da taurin kai a rayuwarsa ta gaba.

Brudenell ya kasance mai hawa mai kyau kuma, wanda aka yi wahayi zuwa gare shi ta hanyar rawar da sojan doki suka taka a yaƙin Waterloo, burinsa shine ya saya kwamiti a cikin tsarin mulki mai kyau kuma ya zama jami'in soja. Mahaifinsa, duk da haka, da yake kula da adana asali iyali daga haɗarin yaƙi, ba zai yarda da wannan ba. Maimakon haka a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1815, an tura shi zuwa Ikilisiyar Kristi, Oxford;  a matsayin aristocrat an ba shi izinin shiga ta atomatik ba tare da jarrabawa ba. Ya bar a shekara ta uku - an saki aristocrats ba tare da wata ilimi ba bayan shekaru biyu kawai - amma duk da nuna wasu ƙwarewa, bai dauki digiri ba.

 Ayyukan majalisa 
A watan Fabrairun 1818, a lokacin wa'adinsa na ƙarshe a Oxford, kuma ya sake bin sha'awar mahaifinsa, ya zama memba na majalisar (MP) na Marlborough, wani yanki mai aljihu mallakar dan uwansa Charles, Marquess na Ailesbury .  Manufar ita ce ta ba Brudenell tushe a cikin al'amuran majalisa kafin, a ƙarshe, zai ɗauki matsayinsa a cikin House of Lords.

Ayyukan farko na Brudenell game da barin Oxford ba shine ya dauki kujerarsa ta majalisa ba amma, kamar yadda al'ada ce ga matasa masu arziki na lokacin, don ɗaukar Grand Tour. Hanyar tafiyarsa, tare da Rasha da Sweden sun haɗa, sun fi girma fiye da wuraren gargajiya na Faransa da Italiya. Tafiyar ta ba Brudenell damar jin daɗin cikakkun abubuwan jin daɗi na al'adu da zamantakewar al'adu waɗanda ƙasashen da ya ziyarta suka ba su.

A lokacin da ya dawo, Brudenell ya zauna a cikin House of Commons, a kan hukuncin, Tory, gefen House. Gudummawar da ya bayar ga gwamnati ba ta da yawa: ya yi aiki tare da 'yan majalisa, kamar su Canning, Peel da Castlereagh, masu babban sadaukarwa da basira kuma ba zai iya ba da komai don yin gasa ba. A kan wata fitowar, duk da haka, ya tsaya. A cikin 1829 jam'iyyarsa ta gabatar da lissafin da ya ba da izinin iyakance 'yancin Katolika amma mai kula da shi, dan uwansa Ailesbury, ya umurce shi da ya yi tsayayya da shi. A cikin kuri'u uku masu mahimmanci Brudenell ya guje, saboda sha'awarsa ga Wellington, mai tallafawa lissafin, kuma saboda haka Ailesbury ya bukaci ya bar kujerar.

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