Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 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 a
c. 1712 portrait of Bolingbroke attributed to Alexis Simon Belle
Bolingbroke pictured alongside the Earl of Oxford, together with a portrait of Francis Atterbury. Engraving after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. Attributed to Charles Jervas.
The Craftsman (newspaper)
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The Craftsman, also known as The Country Journal or, The Craftsman or The Craftsman: Being a Critique on the Times, was a British newspaper which operated from 1726 to 1752. Established by Lord Boling
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
…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." Henry St John…
The Craftsman