Talk:John Wilkes

message: So what was the prank that wound up the Hellfire Club? Cutler 11:29, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
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According to a book I own, Wilkes introduced a baboon at one of the  Hellfire Club orgies, and frightened many of the members present, who mistook the monkey for Satan. Cyanne234 19:31, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Prank

message: Date discrepancy:
The statue photo in this article and a statue in Wilkes-Barre show his year of birth as 1727.
The article has the YOB as 1725.
Barney AZ 11/24/09  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Barney AZ (talk • contribs) 23:25, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: To do

message: This article states that John Wilkes Booth was related to John Wilkes.  The John Wilkes Booth article states that Booth's family claimed to be distantly related to him.  Anyone have the real scoop?  (I wouldn't be surprised if JWB was simply named after JW, who was a hero among the revolutionary crowd.  See, e.g., Wilkes-Barre, PA, named after JW and another MP who was pro-independence.)
:That whole section "Triva" [sic] was a drive-by somewhat low-quality edit by an anon yesterday. It needs cleanup. The article also needs to decide whether the section headings are all H1 or H2 (one = or two). David Brooks 01:45, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  JW and JWB. 

message: There is a very charming painting of Wilkes and his daughter in the National Portrait Gallery in London.  I gather that it was quite rare at that time for public men like him to be portrayed with their families. Cranston Lamont 20:03, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrait 

message: I've reworked a lot of article in the last few days, if I've left anything out or been a bit biased anywhere (I think I probably have) please feel free to change anything. The Intro needs rewriting, and probably the early life section too. If anyone has any other suggestions that would be great. M A Mason 15:12, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reworked article 

message: I had this in my quote file as an exchange between Gladstone and Disraeli so I did some more research and it appears that we have the correct answer already recorded in wikipedia. :)
It was the Earl of Sandwich and the English actor and playwright Samuel Foote who had the exchange "I think, that you must either die of the p-x, or the halter." "My lord, that will depend upon one of two contingencies;--whether I embrace your lordship's mistress, or your lordship's principles." The Yale Book of Quotations traces this to an 1809 source. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations attributed the exchange to Sandwich and John Wilkes, based upon a 1935 book.The Yale Book of Quotations published in 2006.
I am removing this exchange from this article since Wilkes was not involved. --Danny Rathjens 20:15, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Yale Book of Quotations is wrong (although they may mean 1835, which is within living memory of the exchange). This search includes two sources, one from 1840 - and claiming to have it at second hand, and another from 1828. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  misattributed exchange with Lord Sandwhich 

message: I'm adding "1757 he was elected MP for Aylesbury" to the article because without that fact all the unseating mentioned later makes little sense. Nitpyck (talk) 01:18, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  1757 he was elected MP for Aylesbury 

message: There's a confusing redundancy between the sections Radical Journalism and Outlaw, both of which describe the Massacre of St. George's Field in different contexts, giving the reader the impression that this was two separate events. 128.148.235.58 (talk) 19:59, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing redundancy 

message: ...I know nothing about John Wilkes.  The article says a good 10-15 times that he was a 'radical' but never specifies exactly what was radical about his ideas.  since I know nothing about him, hence my consulting the article, I am not able to make these edits.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.198.206.106 (talk) 22:31, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  as a reader... 

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message: It links to answers.com instead of the cited material about the Essay on Woman.  96.242.83.40 (talk) 15:45, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
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message: Here's a source on Wilkes' role in the rial of Wheble and Thompson and attempts by parliament to suppress the reporting of its debates: , from which "He ignored an order to appear [before the House] on 20 March, after which no further effort was made to force him to attend the chamber." Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:42, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wheble and Thompson