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One of the most colorful figures in English political history, John Wilkes (1726—97) is remembered as the father of the British free press, a defender of civil and political liberties, and a hero to American colonists. Wilkes's political career was rancorous, involving duels, imprisonments in the Tower of London, and the Massacre of St. George's Fields, in which seven of his supporters were shot to death by government troops. He was equally famous...
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