Thomas Paine, William Cobbett, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling, Alistair Cooke and Christopher Hitchens, have written about the political and cultural differences between Britain and America.
William Cobbett (1763–1835), British radical agriculturist and prolific journalist.
After being sacked and disbarred he moved to England where he wrote biographies about William Cobbett and Virginia Woolf.
Rural Rides is the book for which the English journalist, agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known.
Outside the church entrance is the grave of the political reformer William Cobbett (1763–1835).
In 1819, the English radical William Cobbett removed Paine's remains to England to build a larger memorial, but Cobbett died before succeeding and the remains disappeared.
In 2007, he received a Guggenheim fellowship, which funded his book The Mermaids of Lapland, about William Cobbett.
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Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, Volume 23 T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.
In early life he became secretary to William Cobbett; in 1838 to the London and Greenwich Railway Company; and later to Lord Albert Conyngham (afterwards Lord Londesborough).
Offstage characters include the Duke of Wellington, Caroline's dead daughter Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, William Wood, William Cobbett and Caroline's lover Mr Pergami.
English Rugby Player Jonny Wilkinson attended William Cobbett Junior School and Weybourne Infant School.