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John Lind was an English
barristerA barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...
, political activist, and pamphleteer who opposed the American Revolution.
He was educated at
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of
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, receiving an MA in 1761. He also began a long association and friendship with
Jeremy BenthamJeremy Bentham was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism...
there.
He was a Fellow of the
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. In November 1773 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Works
- 1773, "Letters Concerning the Present State of Poland."
- 1775, "Remarks on the Principal Acts of the Thirteenth Parliament" defends the Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America...
.
- 1776, "An answer to the Declaration of the American Congress" attacks the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put forth a...
.