John Wilkes
1727 – 1797
English

Journalist, member of parliament. He defended the press.

Contemporaries
1759–1997Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1833William Wilberforce
1703–1791John Wesley
1759–1836Charles Simeon
1743–1805William Paley
1737–1809Thomas Paine
1642–1727Isaac Newton
1689–1762Lady Mary Montagu
1766–1834Thomas Malthus
1792–1866John Keble
1795–1821John Keats
1788–1824Lord George Byron
1778–1840George Brummell
1754–1825Thomas Bowdler
1757–1827William Blake
1775–1817Jane Austen