- John
Wilkes FRS (17
October 1725 – 26
December 1797) was an
English radical journalist and politician, as well as a magistrate,
essayist and soldier. He...
- with two
political groups in the 1760s and 1770s: the Real
Whigs and the
Wilkites. She was also
sympathetic with the
cause of the
American Colonists. However...
-
Vaughan was
using his
contact with John
Seddon of
Warrington to
circulate Wilkite literature in Lancashire. He also
hoped to
recruit supporters in Manchester...
- was
published by him and
Charles Reak, near
Temple Bar, and it
exhibits Wilkite sympathies. In 1773 the
names Okey and Reak
appear as
joint publishers...
- Lord Weymouth, and
Mortimer was
dismissed from his post in 1768, as a
Wilkite; John
Wilkes was
known to be a
personal friend of Mortimer. He returned...
-
signalled Lee's
arrival as
legal adviser to the
Rockingham Whigs. In the
Wilkite agitation of that year
around the
Society of
Gentlemen Supporters of the...
- politics, a
follower of John Wilkes, and some of his
portraits are of
other Wilkites. His
early publisher was
William Wynne Ryland. A
handsome man, he married...
- of a
young American clergyman in
order to
escape the
opposition of the
Wilkites; The
School for
Wives (Drury Lane, 11
December 1773), a
prose comedy given...
-
pamphlet called The Life of John Wilkes, Esq., in the
manner of Plutarch, a
Wilkite mob
having broken his
windows in Dean Street. In 1777 he
published An Account...
