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.
Hill, Bridget. “Daughter and Mother: Some new light on Catharine Macaulay and her family”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
22
, No. 1, pp. 35-49.
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4 February-13 April 1769: Disputes occurred over John Wilkes's right...
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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...