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Henry Redhead Yorke
Henry Redhead Yorke, in early life Henry Redhead (1772–1813) was an English writer and radical publicist. Life Redhead was born and brought up in Barbuda, to a mother who was a freed slave from Barbuda and a father who was an Antiguan plantation owner and manager. He was subsequently taken to England, and raised at Little Eaton, in Derbyshire. It is now considered probable that his parents were Samuel Redhead (died 1785) and Sarah Bullock. In Paris in 1792, Yorke witnessed Louis XVI's appearance before the convention and was close to the Sheares brothers, and others of the so-called "British Club". He fell out with the British radicals over revolutionary politics, getting into disputes with John Oswald (activist), John Oswald. He baulked at a clause in a proposed and defeated resolution of 11 January 1793 encouraging an English insurgency; and as a result was denounced by the economic writer Robert Rayment. Redhead was then the target of an arrest warrant made out by Jacques- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Redhead Yorke
Henry Redhead Yorke, in early life Henry Redhead (1772–1813) was an English writer and radical publicist. Life Redhead was born and brought up in Barbuda, in the eastern Caribbean, to a mother who was a freed slave from Barbuda and a father who was an Antiguan plantation owner and manager. He was subsequently taken to England, and raised at Little Eaton, in Derbyshire. It is now considered probable that his parents were Samuel Redhead (died 1785) and Sarah Bullock. In Paris, France, in 1792, Yorke witnessed Louis XVI's appearance before the convention and was close to the Sheares brothers, and others of the so-called "British Club". He fell out with the British radicals over revolutionary politics, getting into disputes with John Oswald. He baulked at a clause in a proposed and defeated resolution of 11 January 1793, encouraging an English insurgency; and as a result was denounced by the economics writer Robert Rayment. Redhead was then the target of an arrest warrant made o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |