Hill, Bridget. “Daughter and Mother: Some new light on Catharine Macaulay and her family”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, No. 1, pp. 35 -49.
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John Sawbridge
Standard Name: Sawbridge, John
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Macaulay | One of CM
's brothers, also named John Sawbridge
, grew up a radical like herself. He became a member of parliament and Lord Mayor of London. He had a friendship with John Wilkes |
| politics | Catharine Macaulay | Horace Walpole
expressed the hope that CM
might be elected to a vacant alderman's position (like her brother
): he was not, of course, being serious. |
Timeline
4 February-13 April 1769
Disputes occurred over John Wilkes
's right to take his seat in the House of Commons
, from which he had been expelled for the first time in 1764.
20 February 1769
The Bill of Rights Society
was founded at the London Tavern by John Horne (later John Horne Tooke
), John Sawbridge
, Thomas Wilson
, and others, to support Wilkes
and to defend the legal...