William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one...
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Cobbett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976), British artist William Cobbett (1763–1835), British radical...
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Minall or Mildenhall, Wiltshire (1692), and canon of Salisbury (1675). William Cobbett (1763–1835) in his journal of 2 November 1821, while at Hurstbourne...
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inadvertently. The term was popularized in 1807 by English polemicist William Cobbett, who told a story of having used a strong-smelling smoked fish to divert...
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Political Register (redirect from Cobbett's Weekly Political Register)
The Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, commonly known as the Political Register, was a weekly London-based newspaper founded by William Cobbett in 1802...
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fearing and opposing radical causes and revolution. The radical writer William Cobbett was among those who attacked what they saw as Wilberforce's hypocrisy...
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British writers and essayists, including Edmund Burke, William Cobbett, William Blake, William Wordsworth, F. R. Leavis, George Orwell, and Christopher...
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agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known. At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner...
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Mother Ludlam's Cave (section William Cobbett)
where he collapsed and died, leaving the cauldron trapped inside. William Cobbett wrote of the cave in his Rural Rides, recounting his visit of 27 October...
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in the year 1791, by Mary Morgan, London, 1795; William Cobbett, Rural Rides, London, 1853. Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum: a History of the...
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