William Prideaux Courtney

Name: Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Author: William Prideaux Courtney

Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

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“Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition”, published in 1888, is a work by William Prideaux Courtney. It explores elements such as Home Tooke, the House of Commons and Wilkes.

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William Prideaux Courtney, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ Home thereupon, by a bold libel on the Speaker, drew public attention to the case, and, although he himself was placed for a time in the custody of the sergeant-at-arms, the clauses which were injurious to the interests of Mr Tooke were eliminated from the bill through the publicity which his conduct had given to the matter. Mr Tooke's gratitude knew no bounds; he declared his intention of making his friend the heir to his fortune, and, if the design was never carried into effect, Home derived from the generous old man during his life time large gifts of money. ”

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William Prideaux Courtney, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ No sooner was he returned to the House of Commons than Lord Temple endeavoured to secure his exclusion on the ground that he had taken orders in the church, and one of Gillray's caricatures delineates the two politicans, Temple and Camelford, playing at battledore and shuttlecock, with Home Tooke as the shuttlecock. The ministry of Addington would not support this suggestion, but a bill was at once introduced by them and carried into law, which rendered all persons in holy orders ineligible to sit in the House of Commons. ”

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William Prideaux Courtney, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ Home was deeply concerned in all the proceedings of the corporation of London in support of the popular cause, and he advised, if he did not actually draw up, the celebrated speech which Alderman Beckford addressed to his sovereign. As an incidental act in this struggle with the court and the majority of the House of Commons, Home involved himself in a dispute with George Onslow, the member for Surrey, which culminated in a civil action, ultimately decided in Home's favour, and in the loss by his opponent of his seat in parliament. ”

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William Prideaux Courtney, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ TOOKE, John Horne (1736-1812) , an ardent politician and an erudite philologer, was the third son of John Home, a poulterer in Newport Market, whose business the son, when a pupil at Eton with other boys of a more aristocratic position, in early life happily veiled under the title of a " Turkey merchant." He was born in Newport Street, Long Acre, Westminster, on 25th June 1736. ”

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William Prideaux Courtney, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ Between 1782 and 1790 Tooke gave his support to Pitt, and in the election for Westminster, a constituency in which Fox was vitally interested, he threw all his energies into the ministerial cause. With Fox he was never on terms of friendship, and Samuel Rogers, in his Table Talk, asserts that their antipathy was so pronounced that at a dinner party given by a prominent Whig not the slightest notice was taken by Fox of the presence of Home Tooke. It was after the election of Westminster in 1788 that Tooke depicted the two rival statesmen in his celebrated pamphlet of Two Pair of Portraits. ”

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William Prideaux Courtney, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ An influential association, called "the Society for Supporting the Bill of Rights," was founded, mainly through the exertions of Home, in 1769, but the members were soon divided into two opposite camps of the thick and thin partisans of Wilkes and of those who refused to be labelled by the name of any combatant, and in 1770 Home and Wilkes broke out into open warfare. ”

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William Prideaux Courtney, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ For a time (1744-46) he was at Westminster School, but the greater part of his education was got at Eton, and then under private tuition, first at Sevenoaks in Kent (1753) and then at Ravenstone in Northamptonshire. In 1755 he was entered at St John's College, Cambridge, and took his degree of B.A. in 1758, as last but one of the senior optimes, Beadon, his life-long friend, afterwards bishop of Bath and Wells, being among the wranglers in the same year. ”

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