Arthur Beardmore
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Who is Arthur Beardmore?
Arthur Beardmore was an English radical lawyer and a friend on John Wilkes.
Beardmore was an editor of the Monitor. On 6 November 1762 the Secretary of State for the Southern Department, Lord Halifax, issued warrants for the arrest of Beardmore. He was arrested on 11 November for publishing an article on the Princess Dowager and Lord Bute. He made sure he was arrested when he was teaching his son the Magna Carta, an act which was commemorated in a popular print in 1764 after he won £1,000 in damages in May of that year.
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