William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one...
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Cobbett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976), British artist William Cobbett (1763–1835), British radical...
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Minall or Mildenhall, Wiltshire (1692), and canon of Salisbury (1675). William Cobbett (1763–1835) in his journal of 2 November 1821, while at Hurstbourne...
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inadvertently. The term was popularized in 1807 by English polemicist William Cobbett, who told a story of having used a strong-smelling smoked fish to divert...
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brought him into contact with William Cobbett, then at the height of his earlier fame as a Tory martyr. While Cobbett was still in America, Wright acted...
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Political Register (redirect from Cobbett's Weekly Political Register)
The Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, commonly known as the Political Register, was a weekly London-based newspaper founded by William Cobbett in 1802...
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fearing and opposing radical causes and revolution. The radical writer William Cobbett was among those who attacked what they saw as Wilberforce's hypocrisy...
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agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known. At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner...
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The term was coined in the 1820s by William Cobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural England. Cobbett saw the rapidly growing city as a pathological...
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British writers and essayists, including Edmund Burke, William Cobbett, William Blake, William Wordsworth, F. R. Leavis, George Orwell, and Christopher...
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in the year 1791, by Mary Morgan, London, 1795; William Cobbett, Rural Rides, London, 1853. Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum: a History of the...
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Mother Ludlam's Cave (section William Cobbett)
where he collapsed and died, leaving the cauldron trapped inside. William Cobbett wrote of the cave in his Rural Rides, recounting his visit of 27 October...
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entered Parliament to support William Cobbett, whose election as fellow-MP for Oldham he helped to bring about. Like Cobbett, but unlike many other Radicals...
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walnut tree on his farm. In 1819, English agrarian radical journalist William Cobbett, who in 1793 had published a hostile continuation of Francis Oldys...
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Willmer House, now the location of the Museum of Farnham. Politician William Cobbett and writer George Sturt were both born in Farnham, as was Maud Gonne...
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British Isles. They were extremely inexpensive to make. English essayist William Cobbett wrote, "This rushlight cost almost nothing to produce and was believed...
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"agonies of confusion on the brain". Instead he preferred the writings of William Cobbett and Sergius Stepniak, although he also read the critique of socialism...
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a volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. William Cobbett published his newspaper as a pamphlet. The British returned Indonesia...
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the early decades of the nineteenth century, but in January 1822, William Cobbett recorded seeing the gibbet in his "Huntingdon Journal" (published in...
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large majorities in Parliament, with only a few Radicals (such as William Cobbett) voting against. The act was implemented, but the full rigours of the...
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vinegar-wrapped blankets accompanied by mercury rubs, and cold baths.: 329 William Cobbett vociferously objected to Rush's extreme use of bloodletting, and even...
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Revolution, agrarian writers sought a way between liberty and tradition; William Cobbett, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc were main exponents, while the...
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fourth estate of the realm." In 1821, William Hazlitt applied the term to an individual journalist, William Cobbett, and the phrase soon became well established...
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Constitutional History, 13. For the complete quote in context, see William Cobbett et al., eds., The Parliamentary History of England: From the Earliest...
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extreme. The people dirty, poor-looking, but particularly dirty." — William Cobbett in 1823 when he rode to the Island Today there are still farms inland...
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time served in public houses as a simple, inexpensive meal. In 1815, William Cobbett recalled how farmers going to market in Farnham, forty years earlier...
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influential Cobbett Competition for chamber music composition, and endowed the Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music. Walter Cobbett was born in...
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der Bourgeoisie zum Proletariat". Retrieved 6 October 2014. William Sambrook, William Cobbett (1973), ch. I "Merry England?" Martinek, Jason D. (2003)....
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village in the world" by 18th century journalist and radical politician William Cobbett. When the Romans built a road from Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester)...
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or used to make flour. The plant may be eaten as a leaf vegetable. William Cobbett noted that it was "eaten by Frenchmen and pigs when they can get nothing...
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