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."
Everything about Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke →- 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