That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
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| Birth: | 17th October, 1725 |
| Death: | 26th December, 1797 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Journalist, Politician |
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John Wilkes was born in London, England. He was an English radical, journalist and politician. He studied at Leiden University in the Dutch Republic. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1749 and appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1754. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Berwick in the 1754 parliamentary elections but was elected for Aylesbury in 1757 and again in 1761. When the Scottish John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, came to head the government in 1762, Wilkes started a radical weekly publication, The North Briton, to attack him, using an anti-Scots tone. He was a Member of Parliament for Middlesex from 1768-1769 and 1774-1790. He retired from politics and took part in progressive social reforms such as Catholic Emancipation in the 1790s following the French Revolution.
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