John Wilkes
1725–97
Politician and journalist. MP for Aylesbury, 1757–63. Wrote Essay on woman (1754), a parody of Alexander Pope’s Essay on man. Convicted of libel for denouncing the prime minister and the king’s speech, 1763–4; in exile until 1768. Lord mayor of London, 1774–5. Returned to Parliament, 1774–90.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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