The Young Edmund Burke

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William Anthony Hay, His Discontent, and Ours; Long disturbed by the government’s abuse of power, Burke also came to see that a crowd might become as tyrannical as a king. Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2014
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB30001424052702303825604579518223840595380
(book review on David Bromwich, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke; From the sublime and beautiful to American independence. Harvard University Press/Belknap, 2014)


Note;
(a) Richard Shackleton (1726–92) was Burke’s good friend.

(b) Edmund Burke
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke
(1729-1797; Irish; who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party [opposite Tory])

Quote: “The Burke dynasty [or House of Burke] descended from an Anglo-Norman surnamed de Burgh (Latinised as de Burgo) who arrived in Ireland in 1185 following the Norman invasion of Ireland by Henry II of England in 1171.

(i) The Irish surname Burke “(of Anglo-Norman origin): habitational name from Burgh in Suffolk, England. This is named with Old English burh ‘fortification,’ ‘fortified manor’”
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.
(ii) Burgh, Suffolk
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgh,_Suffolk
(a village)

(c) “Mr Bromwich shows Burke arriving here at one of his core principles: that society depends on barriers or constraints that prevent man from allowing his passions to control his reason and drive it to extremes. This insight would later inform his ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France.’ [1790]  Burke established his reputation as a critic a few years later with ‘An Enquiry Into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful [1756],’ a work that still stands as one of the foundational texts of Romanticism.”
(d) “Burke entered Parliament in 1765 [age 36] as the protégé of the Marquess of Rockingham, a stalwart Whig and opponent of George III's government.”
(i) Marquess of Rockingham
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Rockingham
(was created in 1746 for Thomas Watson-Wentworth [qv], 1st Earl of Malton)
(ii) Rockingham, Northamptonshire
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockingham,_Northamptonshire
(The village is the site of Rockingham Castle and gives its name to Rockingham Forest and the title Marquess of Rockingham [seated in Rockingham Castle])
(iii) marquess
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess
(In the United Kingdom the title ranks below a duke and above an earl [in continental Europe, the equivalent was marquis]; section 1 Etymology)
(A) marquess (n; Middle English marquis, markis, from Anglo-French marquys, markys, from [Anglo-French, not Latin] marche march)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marquess
(B) march (n; Middle English marche, from Anglo-French, of Germanic origin--more at MARK):
“a border region :  FRONTIER; especially :  a district originally set up to defend a boundary —usually used in plural <the Welsh marches>”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/march
(C) count (n; Middle English, from Anglo-French cunte, from Late Latin comit-, comes, from Latin, companion, one of the imperial court, from com- + ire to go)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/count
(iv) Whigs (British political party)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whigs_(British_political_party)
(The Whigs played a central role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 * * * remained totally dominant until King George III, coming to the throne in 1760, allowed Tories back in)