Edmund Burke (1729–1797). British Statesman and Political Writer.
This bronze statue, located in Washington, D.C. at 11th and Massachusetts Avenue,
N.W., is a replica of the one erected in Bristol, England, the city which Burke represented in Parliament. It was presented to the American people in 1922 by Sir Charles
Wakefield, former Mayor of London, on behalf of the Sulgrave Institution, an organization which promotes Anglo-American understanding. The Sulgrave Institution has
also restored Sulgrave Manor, once the English estate of Lawrence Washington, of
whom George Washington is a lineal descendant.
In his celebrated Speech to the Electors of Bristol, November 3, 1774, concerning
the duties of a representative to his constituents, Burke rejec ѕ