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Memoirs of John Horne Tooke: Volume 2 : Interspersed with Original Documents, Paperback / softback Book

Memoirs of John Horne Tooke: Volume 2 : Interspersed with Original Documents Paperback / softback

Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries series

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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 2 covers the period 1777–1812 and leads the reader through Horne's two periods of imprisonment, two parliamentary election campaigns, the rise of the Society for Constitutional Information and the publication of his final pamphlet, A Warning to the Electors of Westminster (1807).

This volume concludes with an account of his final years of ill health, his death and his political legacy.

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