(1766-1835) Political writer, author of “History of the Protestant Reformation,” born Farnham, England ; died Guildford. The son of a Surrey farmer, he derived his education mostly from intensive reading. He joined the army in 1784 , saw service in Canada , and was discharged in 1791 . Passing to the United States, he edited and published in Philadelphia his violently anti-American “Porcupine’s Gazette.” Shortly after his return to England in 1800 , he started publication of the “Parliamentary Debates,” which eventually became the “Hansard” of today. His vigorous language brought him several arraignments for libel, and finally a two-years’ imprisonment. To escape his debts, he fled to the United States in 1817 , and there published his famous English grammar. Returning to England , he successfully contested Oldham for Parliament in 1832 , and again in 1834 . In his greatest work, the “History of the Protestant Reformation” (1824 -1827 ), he defends the rights of the monasteries against the depredations of Henry VIII and Elizabeth. <\/p>\n
Cobbett, William (1766-1835) Political writer, author of “History of the Protestant Reformation,” born Farnham, England ; died Guildford. The son of a Surrey farmer, he derived his education mostly from intensive reading. He joined the army in 1784 , saw service in Canada , and was discharged in 1791 . Passing to the United States, … Continue reading “Cobbett, William”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}