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William Cobbett

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born

March 09, 1763 in Farnham, Surrey., The United Kingdom

died

June 18, 1835

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male

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History, Reference

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An English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, who was born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm labourers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly. He was also against the Corn Laws, a tax on imported grain. Early in his career, he was a loyalist supporter of King and Country: but later he joined and successfully publicised the radical movement, which led to the Reform Bill of 1832, and to his winning the parliamentary seat of Oldham. Although he was not a Catholic, he became a fiery advocate of Catholic Emancipation in Britain. Through the seeming contradictions in Cobbett's life, two things stayed constant:...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 52 ratings · 7 reviews · 253 distinct works

	Rural Rides 3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1830 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Grammar of the English Language 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1983 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Cottage Economy 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2000 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Advice to Young Men (1880) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1880 — 16 editions	My rating:
	A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The American Gardener by William Cobbett, Michael Pollan (Editor), Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Peter Porcupine in America by William Cobbett, David A. Wilson (Introduction) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Cottage Economy to Which Is Added the Poor Man's Friend 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	A French Grammar, Or, Plain Instructions for the Learning of French: In a Series of Letters 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Paper Against Gold Or, the History and Mystery of the Bank of England 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:

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