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Edmund Burke

British philosopher and statesman
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January 12? [January 1, Old Style], 1729, Dublin, Ireland
Died:
July 9, 1797, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
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Edmund Burke (born January 12? [January 1, Old Style], 1729, Dublin, Ireland—died July 9, 1797, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England) was a British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker prominent in public life from 1765 to about 1795 and important in the history of political theory. He championed conservatism in opposition to Jacobinism in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). Burke, the son of a solicitor, entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1744 and moved to London in 1750 to begin his studies at the Middle Temple. There follows an obscure period in which Burke lost interest in his legal studies, was ...(100 of 2570 words)

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