Middlesex (constituency)
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Middlesex was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, then of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 unt
Soliciting Votes by William Hogarth, of Chiswick, Middlesex, 1754.
John Wilkes
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John Wilkes was a British radical, journalist, politician, magistrate and writer. He was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of his
Middlesex (constituency)
…Bt (later Sir Hugh Percy, Bt) a Tory 1742 Sir Roger Newdigate, Bt Tory 1747 Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, Bt Whig Whig 1750 George Cooke Tory 1768 John Wilkes Radical 1768 John Glynn Whig 1769 (Feb) 1769 (Mar) 1769 (Apr) Henry Luttrell Tory 1774 John Wilkes Radical 1779 Thomas Wood Whig 1780 George Byng Whig…
Portrait by Richard Houston, 1769
Lord Bute, prime minister between 1762 and 1763, and a major target for Wilkes' paper The North Briton. It angered Wilkes that Bute had displaced Pitt the Elder, and he attacked the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763).
Riots in 1763 to stop the burning of issue No. 45 of The North Briton
"John Wilkes Esq; before the Court of King's Bench", engraving from The Gentleman's Magazine for May 1768