John Horne Tooke

thumb| John Horne Tooke (25 June 1736 – 18 March 1812), known as John Horne until 1782 when he added the surname of his friend William Tooke to his own, was an English clergyman, politician and philologist. Associated with radical proponents of parliamentary reform, he stood trial for treason in 1794. Quotes Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tediously. Epea Pteroenta, or, The Diversions of Purley, vol. 1 (1786) ch. 1, p. 34 Attributed Sir Francis Burdett told us that Horne Tooke, when advised to take a wife, said, "With all my heart; whose wife shall it be?" In Lord Broughton, Recollections of a Long Life, with Additional Extracts from His Private Diaries, edited by Lady Rochester (London: John Murray, 1909), vol. 1, p. 38 (entry for 2 May 1812) External links Category:1736 births Category:Philologists Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Church of England clergy Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Category:People educated at Westminster School, London Category:People educated at Eton College Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:People from the City of Westminster