Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) Anglo - Irish orator, political philosopher and writer, member of the Whig political party. Burke supporting William Wilberforce's motion for the abolition of slavery in the House of Commons, 9 May 1788. engraving from "Heroes of Britain in Peace and War" by Edwin Hodder (London, c1880)
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