Edmund Burke | |
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Born | 12 January 1729 Dublin, Ireland |
Dee'd | 9 Julie 1797 Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Great Breetain | (aged 68)
Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
Releegion | Kirk o Ireland |
Era | Aichteenth century philosphy |
Region | Wastern philosophy |
Schuil | Conservative liberalism, Conservatism |
Main interests | Social an poleetical philosophy |
Notable ideas | The Sublime as something that can provoke terror in the audience |
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Edmund Burke | |
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Paymaster o the Forces | |
In office 1782–1782 | |
Precedit bi | Richard Rigby |
Succeedit bi | Isaac Barré |
In office 1783–1783 | |
Precedit bi | Isaac Barré |
Succeedit bi | William Grenville |
Personal details | |
Born | 12 Januar 1729 Dublin, Ireland |
Dee'd | 9 Julie 1797 Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Great Breetain | (aged 68)
Edmund Burke (12 Januar 1729 – 9 Julie 1797) wis a Breetish-Erse statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, poleetical theorist, an philosopher wha, efter muivin tae Lunnon, served as a Member o Pairlament (MP) for mony years in the Hoose o Commons wi the Whig Pairty.
Edmund Burke was an Irishman, born in Dublin but in an age before 'Celtic nationalism' had been constructed to make Irishness and Englishness incompatible: he was therefore free also to describe himself, without misrepresentation, as 'a loyalist being loyal to England' to denote his membership of the wider polity. He never attempted to disguise his Irishness (as some ambitious Scots in eighteenth-century England tried to anglicise their accents), did what he could in the Commons to promote the interests of his native country and was bitterly opposed to the Penal Laws against Irish Catholics.
Edmund Burke was neither an Englishman nor a Tory. He was an Irishman, probably a Catholic Irishman at that (even if perhaps a secret sympathiser), and for the greater part of his life he upheld the more liberal principles of the Whig faction.