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Edmund Burke

1729/30–97

Irish politician and author. Editor of the Annual Register from 1758. Private secretary to William Gerard Hamilton from 1759. MP for Wendover, 1765–74; for Bristol, 1774–80; for Malton until 1794. Wrote works of political philosophy.

Source

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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