BOLINGBROKE, HENRY SAINT JOHN, 1ST VISCOUNT, BARON ...

born Sept. 16, 1678, probably Wiltshire, Eng. died Dec. 12, 1751, Battersea, near London prominent Tory politician in the reign of Queen Anne of England and, later, a major political propagandist in opposition to the Whig Party led by Sir Robert Walpole. Additional reading H.T. Dickinson, Bolingbroke (1970), now the standard life, based on extensive research and seeking to integrate and interpret Bolingbroke's political career and intellectual development; W.S. Sichel, Bolingbroke and His Times, 2 vol. (190102, reprinted 1968), an old-fashioned biography, which is not very good on interpretation but which quotes much useful source material; G. Holmes, British Politics in the Age of Anne (1967), a brilliant analysis, based on exhaustive research; L. Kramnick, Bolingbroke and His Circle (1968), a stimulating study of the political ideology of the age of Walpole.