Who wrote The Annual Register and also served for many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party?
Edmund Burke Edmund Burke ( ; 12 January [NS] 17299 July 1797) was an Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after moving to London, served as a member of parliament (MP) for many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.
William Lambarde William Lambarde (18 October 1536 – 19 August 1601) was an English antiquarian, writer on legal subjects, and politician. He is particularly remembered as the author of "A Perambulation of Kent" (1576), the first English county history; "Eirenarcha" (1581), a widely read manual on the office and role of justice of the peace; and "Archeion" (completed c.1591, though not published until 1635), a discourse that sought to trace the Anglo-Saxon roots of English common law, prerogative and government.