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A Short Biography of William Cobbett

Author Name:

William Cobbett

Born As:

William Cobbett

Other Names:

William Cobbett

Born:

9 Mar 1763

Died:

18 Jun 1835




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Journalist, Farmer and Political Pamphleter                          
Selected Works:

Cottage Economy
Rural Rides
Advice to Young Men, and Incidentally to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life
A History of the Protestant Reformation In England and Ireland
Rural Rides - full text at A Vision of Britain through Time.

Rural Rides - Chapter on Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire: To St. Albans,Through Edgware, Stanmore, and Watford, Returning by Redbourn, Hempstead, and Chesham. - 1822.

The Poor Man's Friend; or, Essays on the Rights and Duties of the Poor. - 1829 at The McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought

A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and misdemeanors:from the earliest period to the year 1783 - vol. 4 of 21, compiled by Thomas Bayly Howell, London : T.C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. 
The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, New York - 1834.
A Year's Residence in the United States of America published by the author - 1828 - based on his life in 1818 USA.                          
                          
                          
Published the Parliamentary Debates in 1802. This unofficial record of Parliamentary proceedings later became officially known as Hansard.
A story by Cobbett in 1807 led to the use of 'red herring' to mean a distraction from the important issue.