Amhurst, Nicholas (1697–1742), satirist and political writer, was born on 16 October 1697 at Marden, Kent, the first son of Edward Amhurst (bap. 1665, d. 1713), grazier, and grandson of George Amhurst, rector of Marden. His mother, Martha, née Simmonds (1664–1699), died before he was two years old. He was educated at ...
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Amhurst, Nicholas (1697–1742), satirist and political writer
Michael Erben
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Bagehot, Walter (1826–1877)
Maker: Norman Hirst
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Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) by Norman Hirst, pubd 1891 (after Adolphe Beau, 1864) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bagehot, Walter (1826–1877), political commentator, economist, and journalist
Joseph Hamburger
Bagehot, Walter (1826–1877), political commentator, economist, and journalist, was born on 3 February 1826 at Langport, Somerset, the second son of Thomas Watson Bagehot (1795–1881), banker, and Edith Stuckey (1786–1870), a niece of Samuel Stuckey, founder in 1772 of Stuckey's Bank, which issued its own banknotes and enjoyed considerable prominence and respect in the west country. The first born, ...
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Baron, Richard (d. 1768), literary editor and political writer
Leslie Stephen
revised by Philip Carter
Baron, Richard (d. 1768), literary editor and political writer, was born at Leeds, and educated at Glasgow University between October 1737 and May 1740. He left with a testimonial signed by Francis Hutcheson and Robert Simpson. Baron became a friend of Thomas Gordon...
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Blair, Eric Arthur [George Orwell] (1903–1950)
Maker: Felix H. Man
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Eric Arthur Blair [George Orwell] (1903–1950) by Felix H. Man, c. 1947 © Estate of Felix H. Man / National Portrait Gallery, London
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Blair, Eric Arthur [pseud. George Orwell] (1903–1950), political writer and essayist
Bernard Crick
Blair, Eric Arthur [pseud. George Orwell] (1903–1950), political writer and essayist, was born in Motihari, Bengal, India, on 25 June 1903, the only son of Richard Walmesley Blair (1857–1938), a sub-deputy opium agent in the government of Bengal, and his wife, Ida Mabel Limouzin (1875–1943)...
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Bush, Rice (c. 1610–1649), pamphleteer on poor relief
Paul Slack
Bush, Rice (c. 1610–1649), pamphleteer on poor relief, came to prominence in the public debates about new institutions for social welfare which took place in London at the end of the civil war. Little is known about his early life. The son of ...
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Crick, Sir Bernard Rowland (1929–2008)
Maker: Colin McPherson
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Sir Bernard Rowland Crick (1929–2008) by Colin McPherson, 2003 © Colin McPherson / Corbis
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Crick, Sir Bernard Rowland (1929–2008), political scientist and biographer
Andrew Gamble
Crick, Sir Bernard Rowland (1929–2008), political scientist and biographer, was born on 16 December 1929 at 77 Circle Gardens, Merton, London, the son of Harry Edgar Crick (d. 1968), insurance official, and his wife, Florence Clara, née Cook (1890–1986). He attended Whitgift School, Croydon...
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Dyer, John (1653/4–1713), newsletter writer
Brian Cowan
Dyer, John (1653/4–1713), newsletter writer, is of unknown origins. By 1688 he was known as a coffee-house keeper in Whitefriars, London, and as the publisher of a manuscript newsletter, the circulation of which was estimated by Sir Roger L'Estrange to be about '...
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Flint, George (fl. 1714–1750), printer and political writer
Paul Chapman
Flint, George (fl. 1714–1750), printer and political writer, was descended from a family resident in Newcastle upon Tyne, though no further details of his parentage and upbringing are known. By his own account he received his education in a custom house, in a bank, and by travel. He claimed that he '...
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Foot, Paul Mackintosh (1937–2004), journalist
Richard Stott
Foot, Paul Mackintosh (1937–2004), journalist, was born on 8 November 1937 in Haifa, Palestine, the son of Hugh Mackintosh Foot (1907–1990), later Baron Caradon, governor of Jamaica and Cyprus, and at the time an administrative officer in the Palestinian government, and his wife, ...
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Foot, Paul Mackintosh (1937–2004)
Maker: Lewis Morley
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Freeth, John [pseud. John Free] (1731–1808)
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Freeth, John [pseud. John Free] (1731–1808), innkeeper and political ballad writer
John Horden
revised by Nicholas Benbow
Freeth, John [pseud. John Free] (1731–1808), innkeeper and political ballad writer, was born at the Bell Tavern, Philip Street, Birmingham, the second of three sons of Charles Freeth, landlord of the Bell, and his wife, Mary. All three sons were trained for a trade: ...
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Fry [formerly Freund], Richard Henry (1900–2002), financial and political journalist
William M. Clarke
Fry [formerly Freund], Richard Henry (1900–2002), financial and political journalist, was born Richard Freund on 23 September 1900 in Berlin, the son of Rudolf Freund, a brewer and general merchant, and his wife, Betty. Both parents were from Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. He had one brother. Although his father ran a brewery in ...
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Goldsmith, Lewis (1763/4?–1846), journalist and political writer
Simon Burrows
Goldsmith, Lewis (1763/4
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Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke (1794–1865)
Maker: Alfred, Count D'Orsay
Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794–1865) by Alfred, Count D'Orsay, 1840 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke (1794–1865), political and social diarist
Christopher Hibbert
Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke (1794–1865), political and social diarist, was born in London on 2 April 1794. His father, Charles Greville, MP for Petersfield and under-secretary of state in the Home department, was a grandson of the fifth Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court...
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Held, David Jonathan Andrew (1951–2019), political theorist, international relations scholar, and publisher
Tony McGrew
Held, David Jonathan Andrew (1951–2019), political theorist, international relations scholar, and publisher, was born at 1 Devon Rise, Finchley, London, on 27 August 1951, the only son among four children of Peter Erich Julius Held (1922–2018), boot and shoelace manufacturer, and his wife ...
