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Memoirs of John Horne Tooke: Volume 1 - Interspersed with Original Documents (Paperback)
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Memoirs of John Horne Tooke: Volume 1 - Interspersed with Original Documents (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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Equally revered and reviled, the radical John Horne Tooke
(1736-1812) enjoyed a well-deserved reputation as a political
firebrand. Having attended Eton and St John's College, Cambridge,
he explored careers in the church and law before finally gaining
recognition as a vehement advocate of political reform. This
acclaimed two-volume biography by Alexander Stephens (1757-1821)
was published in 1813, incorporating personal correspondence and
presenting its subject as 'a firm friend to the laws and liberties
of his native country'. Volume 1 covers the period 1736-77 and
leads the reader from Horne's birth, education and ordination
through to his early defence of John Wilkes and the foundation of
the Society of Gentleman Supporters of the Bill of Rights. During
this period, Horne published The Petition of an Englishman (1765)
as well as stinging letters in the Oxford Magazine. This volume
concludes with an account of Horne's infamous trial and
imprisonment for libel.
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