English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, 1763–1835
William Cobbett
William Cobbett, portrait in oils possibly by George Cooke, c. 1831 National Portrait Gallery (London)
Born
(1763-03-09)9 March 1763 Farnham, England
Died
18 June 1835(1835-06-18) (aged 72) Normandy, Surrey, England
Occupation
Pamphleteer, journalist, soldier
Education
Gray's Inn
Notable works
Rural Rides
Member of Parliament for Oldham
In office 1832–1835
Succeeded by
John Frederick Lees
Personal details
Political party
Radical
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign activity, and raise wages, with the goal of easing poverty among farm labourers and small land holders. Cobbett backed lower taxes, saving, reversing commons enclosures and returning to the gold standard. He opposed borough-mongers, sinecurists, bureaucratic "tax-eaters" and stockbrokers. His radicalism furthered the Reform Act 1832 and gained him one of two newly created seats in Parliament for the borough of Oldham. His polemics range from political reform to religion, including Catholic emancipation. His best known book is Rural Rides (1830, in print). He argued against Malthusianism, saying economic betterment could support global population growth.
WilliamCobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one...
Cobbett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976), British artist WilliamCobbett (1763–1835), British radical...
Minall or Mildenhall, Wiltshire (1692), and canon of Salisbury (1675). WilliamCobbett (1763–1835) in his journal of 2 November 1821, while at Hurstbourne...
inadvertently. The term was popularized in 1807 by English polemicist WilliamCobbett, who told a story of having used a strong-smelling smoked fish to divert...
The term was coined in the 1820s by WilliamCobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural England. Cobbett saw the rapidly growing city as a pathological...
The Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, commonly known as the Political Register, was a weekly London-based newspaper founded by WilliamCobbett in 1802...
2007, pp. 440–441 Cobbett, William (1823). Cobbett's Political Register. Cox and Baylis. p. 516. Hind, Robert J. (1987). "William Wilberforce and the...
agriculturist and political reformer WilliamCobbett is best known. At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner...
British writers and essayists, including Edmund Burke, WilliamCobbett, William Blake, William Wordsworth, F. R. Leavis, George Orwell, and Christopher...
walnut tree on his farm. In 1819, English agrarian radical journalist WilliamCobbett, who in 1793 had published a hostile continuation of Francis Oldys...
"agonies of confusion on the brain". Instead he preferred the writings of WilliamCobbett and Sergius Stepniak, although he also read the critique of socialism...
British Isles. They were extremely inexpensive to make. English essayist WilliamCobbett wrote, "This rushlight cost almost nothing to produce and was believed...
a volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. WilliamCobbett published his newspaper as a pamphlet. The British returned Indonesia...
entered Parliament to support WilliamCobbett, whose election as fellow-MP for Oldham he helped to bring about. Like Cobbett, but unlike many other Radicals...
large majorities in Parliament, with only a few Radicals (such as WilliamCobbett) voting against. The act was implemented, but the full rigours of the...
Willmer House, now the location of the Museum of Farnham. Politician WilliamCobbett and writer George Sturt were both born in Farnham, as was Maud Gonne...
Revolution, agrarian writers sought a way between liberty and tradition; WilliamCobbett, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc were main exponents, while the...
fourth estate of the realm." In 1821, William Hazlitt applied the term to an individual journalist, WilliamCobbett, and the phrase soon became well established...
extreme. The people dirty, poor-looking, but particularly dirty." — WilliamCobbett in 1823 when he rode to the Island Today there are still farms inland...
Constitutional History, 13. For the complete quote in context, see WilliamCobbett et al., eds., The Parliamentary History of England: From the Earliest...
vinegar-wrapped blankets accompanied by mercury rubs, and cold baths.: 329 WilliamCobbett vociferously objected to Rush's extreme use of bloodletting, and even...
influential Cobbett Competition for chamber music composition, and endowed the Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music. Walter Cobbett was born in...
der Bourgeoisie zum Proletariat". Retrieved 6 October 2014. William Sambrook, WilliamCobbett (1973), ch. I "Merry England?" Jason D. Martinek. 'The Workingman's...
Cottage Economy is a book by WilliamCobbett, first published in 1821, which covers many practical instructions such how to bake bread, brew beer, keep...
or used to make flour. The plant may be eaten as a leaf vegetable. WilliamCobbett noted that it was "eaten by Frenchmen and pigs when they can get nothing...
declined. Increasingly, Bache was attacked by other journalists in print. WilliamCobbett, known by his pen name Peter Porcupine, described him as a "stubborn...
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