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active 1771-1808 Robert Holloway

These surviving pamphlets come from a combative late-18th-century English writer who aimed his fire at abuses in London’s legal system. His work gives a sharp, firsthand-feeling glimpse of debt, policing, and public controversy in Georgian Britain.

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A Letter to Sir Richard Ford and the Other Police Magistrates Upon the Prevalancy of Gaming, and the Infamous Practices of Common Informers

A Letter to Sir Richard Ford and the Other Police Magistrates Upon the Prevalancy of Gaming, and the Infamous Practices of Common Informers

by active 1771-1808 Robert Holloway

A Letter to John Wilkes, Esq; Sheriff of London and Middlesex In Which the Extortion and Oppression of Sheriffs Officers, With Many Other Alarming Abuses, Are Exemplified and Detected; and a Remedy Proposed

A Letter to John Wilkes, Esq; Sheriff of London and Middlesex In Which the Extortion and Oppression of Sheriffs Officers, With Many Other Alarming Abuses, Are Exemplified and Detected; and a Remedy Proposed

by active 1771-1808 Robert Holloway

About the author

Very little biographical information seems to survive about this writer beyond a catalogued active period of 1771–1808. The works currently associated with him point to an English pamphleteer focused on public grievances, especially the conduct of sheriffs' officers, magistrates, and related parts of the legal system.

Two known works help sketch that profile: A Letter to John Wilkes, Esq; Sheriff of London and Middlesex (1771) and A Letter to Sir Richard Ford and the Other Police Magistrates. Both titles suggest a writer deeply engaged with the civic life of London and willing to challenge authority in print.

Because firm personal details are scarce, the strongest way to approach him is through the surviving texts themselves. They belong to a tradition of direct, argumentative political writing, and they remain useful for readers interested in justice, reform, and everyday conflict in Georgian England.