James Burgh
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'''James Burgh''' (1714–1775) was a British [[Whig (British political faction)|Whig]] politician whose book ''Political Disquisitions'' set out an early case for [[freedom of speech|free speech]] and [[universal suffrage]]: in it, he writes, "All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people." He has been judged "one of England's foremost propagandists for radical reform".{{cite journal|last=Hay|first=Carla H.|title=The Making of a Radical: The Case of James Burgh|journal=The Journal of British Studies|publisher=University of Chicago Press|volume= 18| issue = 2 |date=Spring 1979 |pages=90–117|jstor=175514|doi=10.1086/385739|s2cid=153660092 }} |
'''James Burgh''' (1714–1775) was a British [[Whig (British political faction)|Whig]] politician whose book ''Political Disquisitions'' set out an early case for [[freedom of speech|free speech]] and [[universal suffrage]]: in it, he writes, "All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people." He has been judged "one of England's foremost propagandists for radical reform".{{cite journal|last=Hay|first=Carla H.|title=The Making of a Radical: The Case of James Burgh|journal=The Journal of British Studies|publisher=University of Chicago Press|volume= 18| issue = 2 |date=Spring 1979 |pages=90–117|jstor=175514|doi=10.1086/385739|s2cid=153660092 }} |
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Burgh also ran a [[dissenting academies|dissenting academy]] and wrote on subjects such as educational reform. |
Burgh also ran a [[dissenting academies|dissenting academy]] and wrote on subjects such as educational reform. [[Lyndall Gordon]] said that his widow acted as "[[fairy godmother]]"{{cite book | last = Gordon | first = Lyndall | title = Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft | publisher = Virago Press | year = 2005 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/vindicationlifeo00gord/page/562 562. Page 40.] | isbn = 0-06-019802-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/vindicationlifeo00gord/page/562 }} to early feminist [[Mary Wollstonecraft]], then a young and unpublished schoolmistress, helping her to set up her own boarding school. Wollstonecraft entitled her first book ''[[Thoughts on the Education of Daughters]]'' (1787), alluding to Burgh's ''Thoughts on Education'' (1747) which in turn alludes to [[John Locke]]'s 1693 work, ''[[Some Thoughts Concerning Education]]''. |
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==Life and works== |
==Life and works== |
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