# Edmund Burke

> An 18th-century Anglo-Irish politician who watched the French Revolution unfold and wrote the text that became conservatism's founding document — arguing that tearing down old institutions destroys more than it saves.

*Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher (1729–1797)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Born:** 1729-01-12
- **Died:** 1797-07-09
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Edmund Burke spent nearly three decades as a Whig MP in the House of Commons, from 1766 to 1794, defending causes that didn't always align: he supported the American colonists' right to resist British taxes (though not independence), pushed for Catholic emancipation, and led the impeachment effort against Warren Hastings of the East India Company. In 1790, watching the French Revolution consume the church and ancien régime, he published Reflections on the Revolution in France, asserting that revolution was shredding the fabric of good society and that manners, religious institutions, and inherited structures were essential to moral stability. The book split the Whigs — Burke led the Old Whigs against Charles James Fox's pro-revolution faction — and made him a lodestone for conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic. He died in 1797, but the argument lived: by the 20th century, Burke was credited as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism, his warnings about unchecked change still cited whenever tradition and upheaval collide.

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