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Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (25 January 1770 – 23 January 1844) was a British politician and Member of Parliament who gained notoriety as a proponent (in advance of the Chartists) of universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts, vote by ballot, and annual parliaments.
Sir Francis Burdett, 5. Baronet (* 25. Januar 1770 in Foremarke Hall, Derbyshire; † 23. Januar 1844 in London) war ein britischer Reformpolitiker.
Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet was an English politician and a zealous and courageous advocate of reform who more than once endured imprisonment for his radical views; he later lost interest in uprooting abuses and allied himself with the Conservative Party. His marriage to a wealthy woman.
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Burdett, an important figure in the development of early nineteenth century radicalism, had had a turbulent career as the advocate of and martyr for parliamentary reform during the war years. Thereafter his brand of patrician radicalism, with its strong element of Tory romanticism, held little appeal for working class radicals of the provincial ...
Sir Francis Burdett. (1770—1844) politician. Quick Reference. (1770–1844), aristocratic reformer. The most prominent radical reformer of the Napoleonic war years, he reappropriated much of the traditional popular association between patriotism and political opposition which had been lost in the 1790s. [...]
Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt. (1770-1844), Parliamentary reformer. Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter associated with 135 portraits. An aristocrat and an independent MP, Burdett entered Parliament in 1796 to become the most influential radical politician. He championed free speech, personal liberty and radical state prisoners.
SIR FRANCIS BURDETT AND BURDETTITE RADICALISM J. R. DINWIDDY Royal Holloway College, University of London Nearly 50 years have elapsed since two book-length studies of Sir Francis Burdett were published, one of them a rather diffuse two-volume biogra phy which contained some valuable material from the Burdett family pap
