Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (12 January 1729-9 July 1797) was an important Irish politician, and writer. He became a member of the British Parliament with the Whigs in 1765.
Burke supported the American Revolution. He opposed the French Revolution for killing Catholics and other dissenters. His most famous book was Reflections on the Revolution in France, which created many of the ideas in conservatism.
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The Gregories estate purchased by Burke for £20,000 in 1768
In Cincinnatus in Retirement (1782), James Gillray caricatured Burke's support of rights for Catholics
Smelling out a Rat;—or—The Atheistical-Revolutionist disturbed in his Midnight "Calculations" (1790) by Gillray, depicting a caricature of Burke holding a crown and a cross while the seated man Richard Price is writing "On the Benefits of Anarchy Regicide Atheism" beneath a picture of the execution of Charles I of England
Reflections on the Revolution in France, And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris. By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke.
Portrait of Charles James Fox (1749-1806)
Statue of Edmund Burke in Washington, D.C.
Other websites
- Works by Edmund Burke at Project Gutenberg (including his collected works in 12 volumes)