Stock Photo: John Wilkes Statue In London Was A British Radical, Journalist And Politician
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John Wilkes was a British radical, journalist and politician. He was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of his voters rather than the House of Commons to determine their representatives. In 1768, angry protests of his supporters were suppressed in the St George`s Fields Massacre. he was instrumental in obliging the government to concede the right of printers to publish verbatim accounts of parliamentary debates. He introduced the first bill for parliamentary reform in the British Parliament.During his life, he earned a reputation as a libertine.
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