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John Horne Tooke
John Horne Tooke by Thomas Hardy (1757–1804)
Member of Parliament for Old Sarum
In office
1801–1802
Serving with George Hardinge
MonarchGeorge III
Prime MinisterHenry Addington
Preceded byGeorge Yonge
Succeeded byHenry Alexander
ConstituencyOld Sarum
Personal details
Born
John Horne

(1736-06-25)25 June 1736
Long Acre, Westminster
Died18 March 1812(1812-03-18) (aged 75)
Chester House, Wimbledon
NationalityEnglish
Political partyRadical

John Horne Tooke (25 June 1736 – 18 March 1812), known as John Horne until 1782 when he added the surname of his friend William Tooke to his own, was an English clergyman, politician and philologist. Associated with radical proponents of parliamentary reform, he stood trial for treason in 1794.

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(1899). "Tooke, John Horne". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 40–47. Sutherland, John. The...

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of Thomas Paine for seditious libel (1792), and the prosecution of John Horne Tooke for high treason (1794). Perceval joined the London and Westminster...

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painter John Alexander Gresse was here in 1784, the year of his death. John Horne Tooke, philologist and politician, lived here in about 1804; John Constable...

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activists, the prison reformer John Howard counted Price as a close friend; also there were John Horne Tooke, and John and Ann Jebb. Others acknowledged...

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who suffers for the public good, should be supported by the public". John Horne Tooke argued that the Society should send money to printers who had been...

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