Edmund Burke

(1729 –  1797)

1. Irish statesman, economist, and political philosopher
2. A noted Conservative- founder of British modern conservatism
3. Opposed French Revolution: ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’- Revolution was destroying the fabric of good society and traditional institutions of state and society
4. Was instrumental in impeachment of Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India

State:

1. "A partnership in all science, a partnership in all arts, a partnership in and in all perfection... a partnership not only between those who are living, but those who are dead, and those who are to be born"