John Wilkes, English journalist and politician (died 1797)

John Wilkes

English radical, journalist, and politician (1725–1797)

John Wilkes was an English radical journalist and politician, as well as a magistrate, essayist and soldier. He was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of his voters – rather than the House of Commons – to…