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Henry Redhead Yorke
1772–1813
A fiery political writer whose life swung from radical agitation to later conservatism, he brought the tensions of the Atlantic world into British public debate. Born in the Caribbean and educated in England, he remains a strikingly complex figure of the 1790s and early 1800s.
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France in eighteen hundred and two : Described in a series of contemporary letters
by Henry Redhead Yorke
About the author
Born in 1772 and raised between the Caribbean and England, Henry Redhead Yorke became known as a writer and public speaker during one of the most turbulent political periods in Britain. Early in life he was associated with radical reform politics and gained attention as a forceful publicist.
His career did not follow a simple path. Yorke later moved away from his earlier radical position, and that change has made him especially interesting to historians, who see his life as reflecting larger arguments about empire, identity, loyalty, and political change in the age of revolution.
He died on January 28, 1813. Today he is remembered less as a household name than as a vivid, complicated voice in British political writing, with a story that connects Britain to the wider Atlantic world.