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Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729– 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.
He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro–French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox.
Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the 19th century.[citation needed] Since the 20th century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern Conservatism, as well as a representative of classical liberalism.
Burke was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a prosperous solicitor father (Richard; d. 1761) of the Church of Ireland. It is unclear if this is the same Richard Burke who converted from Catholicism. His mother Mary (c. 1702–1770), whose maiden name was Nagle, was a Roman Catholic and came from an impoverished but genteel County Cork family. The Burke dynasty descended from an Anglo-Norman surnamed de Burgh (Latinised as de Burgo) who arrived in Ireland in 1185 following the Norman invasion of Ireland by Henry II of England in 1171.)
Actors: Jon-Paul Gates (actor), Robbie Moffat (director), Robbie Moffat (producer), Peter Hollywood (editor), Mairi Fraser Sutherland (writer), Mairi Fraser Sutherland (actress), Mairi Fraser Sutherland (producer), Lucy Russell (actress), Rebecca Palmer (actress), James Watson (actor), Michael E. Rodgers (actor), Isla St. Clair (actress), Stewart Preston (actor), Anthony Mark Streeter (actor), Sean Arnold (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ian McNeice (actor), Tim McInnerny (actor), T.P. McKenna (actor), Alec McCowen (actor), Ian Hart (actor), Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), Frank Finlay (actor), Jeremy Irons (actor), Nigel Davenport (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), Charles Gray (actor), Bill Nighy (actor), Steve Morphew (actor),
Plot: In the 18th century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would give you the latitude, but not the longitude unless done in conjunction with a clock that would keep time accurately at sea, and no such clock existed. After one too many maritime disasters due to navigational errors, the British Parliament set up a substantial prize for a way to find the longitude at sea. The film's main story is that of craftsman John Harrison: he built a clock that would do the job, what we would now call a marine chronometer. But the Board of Longitude was biased against this approach and claiming the prize was no simple matter. Told in parallel is the 20th century story of Rupert Gould, for whom the restoration of Harrison's clocks to working order became first a hobby, then an obsession that threatened to wreck his life.
Keywords: 1700s, 1920s, admiration, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, british-navy, bureaucracy, chronometer, clock, father-son-relationshipActors: Lucille La Verne (actress), D.W. Griffith (director), Neil Hamilton (actor), Charles Bennett (actor), Harry Semels (actor), D.W. Griffith (producer), Edward Roseman (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Edward Dillon (actor), Arthur Donaldson (actor), Lionel Barrymore (actor), Lee Beggs (actor), Louis Wolheim (actor), James Smith (editor), Riley Hatch (actor),
Plot: THe first half of the film portrays the struggle of the under-armed, under-manned colonists against the British Redcoats at Lexington, Bunker Hill and Valley Forge. Other landmarks of the American Revolution shown include the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's midnight ride and Patrick Henry's (played by Frank McGlyyn Jr. and not played by his father Frank McGlynn Sr) inflammatory speeches to the VIrginia House of Burgesses. The second half dwells on the bloody Indian War of Mohawk Valley. THe parts are tied together by the troubled romance between a young patriot, Nathan Holden (Neal Hamilton (I)')and Nancy Montague ('Carol Dempster' (qv)), the daughter of a Tory Judge.
Keywords: 1770s, american-revolution, battle, battlefield, boston-massachusetts, boston-tea-party, british-redcoat, bunker-hill, card-game, church