Bolingbroke, Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount
- Bolingbroke, Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount
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born Sept. 16, 1678, probably Wiltshire, Eng.
died Dec. 12, 1751, Battersea, near London
British politician.
After entering Parliament in 1701, he became a prominent Tory in the reign of Queen
Anne, serving as secretary of war (1704–08) and of state (1710–15). He was dismissed from office by
George I and, fearing impeachment because of his intrigues with the
Jacobites, he fled to France in 1715. He returned to England in 1725 and became the centre of a literary circle that included
Jonathan Swift,
Alexander Pope, and
John Gay. He waged an influential propaganda campaign in opposition to the Whigs and their leader,
Robert Walpole, and
also wrote several historical and philosophical works,
including The Idea of a Patriot King (published secretly by Pope in 1744 and as a corrected version in 1749).
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Universalium.
2010.
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