Tooke

He was chair of what has become known as the Tooke Inquiry into the shortcomings of the Modernising Medical Careers (

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Horne Tooke's doctrine, [176] though calling Tooke an 'ingenious grammarian, not a very profound philosopher,' but holds, as we shall see, that the materialistic tendency can be avoided.

The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

Initially radicalised by the establishment's efforts to exclude the newly-elected John Wilkes from parliament, Horne Tooke became an organiser of societies dedicated to widening suffrage — including the Society for Constitutional Information.

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Horne Tooke, John (1736 – 1812): a philologist and radical whose etymological work The Diversions of

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Society he, like Horne Tooke, was tried for treason in 1794.

Letter 354 2009

A great liberal lawyer who successfully defended Horne Tooke at his trial for treason in 1794 and was the advocate for many radicals accused of seditious libel.

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Opie, Amelia (1769 – 1853): a friend of Horne Tooke, Godwin and Wollstonecraft, Opie published her first novel in 1801 and her first volume of poems in 1802.

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Burdett was a supporter of the veteran radical John Horne Tooke, whom Bloomfield knew.

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Bloomfield meets the radical shoemaker Thomas Hardy and converses with Hardy's fellow-accused in the 1794 treason trials, John Horne Tooke; he also corresponds with Paine's admirer Thomas Clio Rickman (Letters 353, 129-30).

Introduction: Tim Fulford 2009

Horne Tooke was, by the early 1800s when Bloomfield came to know him, already a veteran campaigner for parliamentary reform.

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