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| | Edmund Burke |
 | | Burke was born at Dublin in Ireland, then part of the British Empire, the son of a prosperous attorney, and, after an early education at home, became a boarder at the school run by Abraham Shackleton, a Quaker from Yorkshire, at Ballitore in the Blackwater Valley. | | | Burke's practical thinking about the dispute between the British parliament and its North American colonies began with a situation not of his making, that is to say the rejection of the Stamp Act by the colonists, and its withdrawal by the ministry headed by Lord Rockingham in 1765-6. | | | Burke was practically successful in 1766 with the House of Commons because he was speaking for the executive, and Members of Parliament, ceteris paribus, tended to vote for the king's ministers. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/burke
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Edmund Burke |
| | Here trouble had just arisen over the appointment of a vicar-general, and Father Burke was blamed by some partisans for espousing the cause of his superior. | | | He arrived in Quebec in the summer of 1786, and in September of that year was made professor of philosophy and mathematics in the seminary of Quebec. | | | The unpleasant conditions led young Burke to follow the advice of Dr. Carpenter, Archbishop of Dublin, and go to Canada. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03079c.htm
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