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TOOKE, JOHN HORNE, third son of John Horne, Newport Street, Westminster, poulterer, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); b. 25 Jun 1736; at school in 1744 (DNB); at Eton Coll. 1746-53; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 12 Jan 1753/4, matr. Mich. 1754, scholar; BA 1758; MA 1771; adm. Inner Temple 9 Nov 1756, left 9 Feb 1759; Usher at a school at Blackheath; ordained deacon (Canterbury) 23 Sep 1759, priest (Salisbury) 23 Nov 1760; Perpetual Curate of St. Lawrence, New Brentford, Middlesex 26 Sep 1760-73; author of pamphlet, The Petition of an Englishman, 1765, violently defending John Wilkes; supported Wilkes at Middlesex election 1768; fined £400 by Lord Mansfield for libelling George Onslow, but the verdict was set aside on appeal 17 Apr 1771; formedthe Society for supporting the Bill of Rights 1771; quarrelled with Wilkes and formed the Constitutional Society 1771; became unpopular and burnt in effigy by the mob Jul 1771; resigned living 1773; summoned to bar of House of Commons for a violent attack on the Speaker in the Public Advertiser 1774; fined and imprisoned for publishing in the newspapers an appeal for subscriptions for the American colonists 1778; wished to resume legal career, but was refused call to the bar 8 Jun 1779, on the ground that he was still in holy orders; joined Society for Constitutional Information 1780; assumed additional surname of Tooke at request of his friend William Tooke, Purley, Surrey; contested Westminster 1790 and 1796; tried for high treason before Chief Justice Eyre 5-22 Nov 1794, but acquitted; MP Old Sarum 14 Feb 1801-2; in consequence of his return, an Act was passed declaring clergymen ineligible for election in the future; a learned philologist and a staunch upholder of public justice and popular rights; author, Epea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of Purley, 1786-1805, and other works; d. 18 Mar 1812. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.