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William Cobbett (1763-1835), Journalist, agriculturalist and politician; MP for Oldham. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter associated with 57 portraits A political journalist and farmer, Cobbett was one of the most influential radicals in the decades before the Reform Act (1832).
2. März 2009 · William Cobbett was born in Farnham, but settled in Botley in 1805 where he combined his career as a political journalist with farming and family life, bringing up his large brood of seven children.
20. Feb. 2022 · William Cobbett (1763-1835) was not an intellectual. Those looking among the early counter-revolutionary thinkers for robust and scholarly arguments, tightly constructed and leading to punchy conclusions, will be disappointed by the rambling writings of Cobbett. Indeed, that is exactly what Cobbett was in every sense: a rambler. The expansive thought of men like Burke, Maistre, Bonald, and ...
William Cobbett was born on March 9, 1763, into the “Old England” of the picture books. His father, George Cobbett, was a farmer and publican in the quiet Surrey village of Farnham, forty ...
Rural Rides. Rural Rides is the book for which the English journalist, agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known. At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti- Corn Law campaigner, newly returned to England from a spell of self-imposed political exile in the United States.
6. Okt. 2022 · William Cobbett was a 19th century English writer, politician and campaigner, at a time when England was on the verge of riots and revolution, and many lived in extreme poverty. Born in 1763 ...
9. Apr. 2020 · Rural Rides is the book for which the English journalist, agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known. At the time of writing Rural Rides, in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner. He embarked on a series of journeys by horseback through the countryside of Southeast England and the English Midlands.
