A champion of English freedom, establishing the campaigning newspaper "The North Briton". In his 1754 'Essay on Woman' he wrote:
'Life can little more supply
than just a few good fucks and then we die.'
Despite this ditty (or because of?) he became MP for Middlesex in 1757 and Lord Mayor in 1774.
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John Wilkes
Alderman on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994. Lord M...
Lord Mayor of the City of London 1899-1900 and in that role instrumental in t...
Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. Builder and Liberal pa...
Lord Mayor, 1990 - 91. Alderman in the City of London in 1996. Made Knight Gr...
