Tooke

TookeJohn Horne17361812MBritishPOLITICS: radical politicianWRITING: writer John Horne, original name John Horne. 1736–1812, British radical, who founded (1771) the Constitutional Society to press for parliamentary reform: acquitted (1794) of high treason. He also wrote the philological treatise The Diversions of Purley (1786)