biography
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Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount
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| lived:
| (1678–1751)
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| biography:
| English statesman and writer, born in London, UK. He was educated at Eton, and may have gone to Oxford. After travelling in Europe, he entered parliament (1701), becoming secretary for war (1704), foreign secretary (1710), and joint leader of the Tory Party. He was made a peer in 1712. On the death of Queen Anne (1714), his Jacobite sympathies forced him to flee to France, where he wrote Reflections on Exile. He returned for a while to England (1725–35), but unable to attain political office he went back to France (1735–42). His last years were spent in London, where his works included the influential Idea of a Patriot King (1749). |
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