Edmund Burke
Contributions
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to that event: In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris has translation author
Knows
- Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucé cleric writer
- Thomas Clarkson abolitionist writer
- Pierre-Gaeton Dupont jurist translator
- Philip Francis pamphleteer politician
- Oliver Goldsmith historian novelist poet writer
- James Mackintosh historian journalist jurist philosopher physician politician professor writer
- Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau abolitionist freemason pamphleteer politician translator writer
- Thomas Paine journalist philosopher revolutionary writer
- William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne economist military politician
- Richard Price cleric philosopher translator writer
- James Ridgway bookseller publisher
- John Wilkes journalist politician translator writer
- David Williams cleric philosopher translator writer
Member of
- British Parliament political institution
Notes
On 15 Sept 1793, Farington described a meeting between Burke and Mirabeau in his celebrated diary:
"Sir Gilbert Eliott [afterwards Lord Minto] told Lawrence (R.A.) that he was at school or an Academy with the celebrated Mirabeau. Sir Gilbert introduced him when he visited England to Mr. Burke. It was very singular to see Mirabeau and Burke in controversy. Mirabeau could speak little English, Burke French imperfectly. Yet these celebrated men argued with as much earnestness and continuation as if they had been speaking a language common to both. Mirabeau was astonished at the eloquence and force with which Burke expressed his meaning, although he could only do it by uniting words of different languages". See Joseph Farington, 'The Farington Diary [1793-1821] July 13, 1793 to August 24, 1802. Volume 1' (1802, Hutchinson), p.5.