Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Also known as Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
English politician and Viscount (1678-1751)
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- Born
- 1678
- Died
- 1751
- Works
- 119
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- A vindication of natural society, or, A view of the miseries and evils arising to mankind from every species of artificial society
- A Letter to the Examiner, concerning The Barrier-treaty vindicated
- The famous dedication to the pamphlet, entitled, A dissertation upon parties addressed to the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Walpole
- The life of Alexander Pope
- A merry letter from the Ld. Bol----ke [Bolingbroke] to a certain favourite mistress near Bloomsbury-square ...
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Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (16 September 1678 – 12 December 1751) was a British Tory politician and philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically despite his antireligious views and opposition to theology. Bolingbroke supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, which sought to overthrow the new king George I. Escaping to France, he became foreign minister for the Jacobite pretender James Francis Edward Stuart. He was attainted for treason but reversed course and was allowed to return to England in 1723. According to Ruth Mack, "Bolingbroke is best known for his party politics, including the ideological history he disseminated in The Craftsman (1726–1735) by adopting the formerly Whig theory of the Ancient Constitution and giving it new life as an anti-Walpole Tory principle."
