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.
James Jackson (historian) James Jackson was an Anglican clergyman, best known as the author of an analytical index to the parish register of Brixworth, where he was vicar from 1735 to 1770. His index is one of the earliest complete parish register transcripts and family reconstitution projects.