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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

English politician and Viscount (1678-1751)

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About Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke was a British Tory politician and philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically despite his antireligious views and opposition to theology. Bolingbroke supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, which sought to overthrow the new king George I. Escaping to France, he became foreign minister for the Jacobite pretender James Francis Edward Stuart. He was attainted for treason but reversed course and was allowed to return to England in 1723. According to Ruth Mack, "Bolingbroke is best known for his party politics, including the ideological history he disseminated in The Craftsman (1726–1735) by adopting the formerly Whig theory of the Ancient Constitution and giving it new life as an anti-Walpole Tory principle."

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Occupation: politician, philosopher, historian, writer
Position held: Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, Secretary of State for the Northern Department, Secretary at War
Citizenship: Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain
Born: September 16, 1678, 1678
Died: December 12, 1751, 1751

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Letters on the study and use of history The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke (ed. London, 1809)Tories Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England Secretary of State for the Southern Department Secretary of State for the Northern Department Secretary at War member of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain

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