1768-1806: Member of Parliament

-1768-1774: for Midhurst

-1774-1780: for Malmesbury

-1780-1784: for Westminster

-1784-1785: for Tain Burghs

-1785-1806: for Westminster

--1797-1803: Imprisoned in the Tower of London

1770-1772: Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty

1773-1774: Lord Commissioner for the Treasury

1782-1782; 1783-1783: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

1783-1806: Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition

-Hoche successfully invades Ireland, causes War of the French Revolution (1792-1804) > Great Irish Rebellion (1796-9)

-makes government even more unhinged

-and Fox's links with United Irishmen back when they were constitutional does not help

-many call Fox a traitor, talk of arresting him

-and though he does condemn the violence and declares his support of the monarchy, doesn't stop it

-when Fox toasts to "Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People" in 1797, government arranges for his arrest

-through purely constitutional means by the Commons voting for it, and only until the end of the session

-however, they renew his arrest every time until Parliament dissolved

-backfires, makes him a martyr among many Radicals who would otherwise find him too Whiggish

-gives him time to write very biased history of late 17th to early 18th century

-famously, only released from jail to run for Parliament, and wins

-comes to Parliament in victory session, and later to support the end of the War of the French Revolution (1792-1804), otherwise almost entirely seceded from Parliament

-died in 1806

1784-1820: Member of Parliament

-1784-1810: for Norwich

-1810-1817: for St Mawes

-1817-1820: for Norfolk

1793-1797: Secretary at War

1814-1815: Secretary of State for the Home Department

-serves as a representative of Burkean moderatism within Parliament

-and strongly seeks to keep Burke's legacy alive in his own way

-serves as Secretary at War until he resigns with Heads of British Isles > 1797-1797 William Pitt the Younger (Tory) over the lack of Catholic emancipation with the Acts of Union

-serves as a part of the Pittites but even becomes independent of them

-as he's just incredibly prowar and believes, like Burke, in forever war with the forces of democracy

-when Heads of British Isles > 1797-1814 Henry Addington (Tory) amends the Toleration Act to heavily restrict licenses Windham shifts again

-becomes a Foxite Whig when he corrals in the Toleration Act's defence

-and when the Foxite frontbench gets arrested he is an exception

-in the Heads of British Isles > 1814-1815 Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira (Ministry of All Talents [led by Whigs]) he becomes part of ministry

-his belief in restarting a war with France means he's at Home rather than War like last time

-gets frustrated at nature of coalition because he can't do desired reforms

-with release

-posthumously regarded as a founder of Ideology > Moderatism

1780-1823: Member of Parliament

-1780-1806: for Stafford

--1797-1803: Imprisoned in the Tower of London

-1806-1823: for Westminster

--1807-1810: Imprisoned in the Tower of London

1806-1823: Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition

1814-1815: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

-without Grenvillites joining opposition, after Fox's death the charismatic Sheridan becomes leader of Foxites

-and wins election in his former constituency of Westminster to boot

-in Moira ministry becomes foreign secretary, not very good at it

-greatly embarrasses Wellesley during his ministry, helps cause his resignation

-dies soon afterwards

1790-1831: Member of Parliament

-1790-1827: for Bedford

--1807-1810: Imprisoned in the Tower of London

--1824-1827: Imprisoned in the Tower of London

-1827-1829: for Bedford (Convention Parliament)

-1829-1831: for the 1st Grand Division of Bedford

1814-1815: Secretary of State for War

1831-1833: Prime Minister of the British Isles

1833-1834: Member of Parliament for the 1st Grand Division of Bedford

1834-1837: Prime Minister of the British Isles

1837-1838: Member of Parliament for the 1st Grand Division of Bedford

-funeral

-takes him his home to London

-major social event

-crowds cheer him with "Whitbread and Liberty"

-buried in Westminster Abbey with grand memorial

-life very similar initially, pre-pod especially

-brought to radicalism after failure of reformist proposals from 1808 onwards

-writes radical reform bill in 1813 in reaction to neo-saxon reform bill of major cartwright

-influential in philosophic radical circles, meets people like joseph hume and james mill and francis place

-interest in constitutional law piqued with french constitutional reform in 1810, gets to work writing a constitutional code

-gets through many drafts, ultimately it's republican and very democratic, published in 1826 for the benefit of reformers around world

-supports legal reform and codification of law, works with both whigs and radicals in this regard but believes parliamentary reform only way to pass it

-makes complete penal code as his life reaches end

-has many notes on civil and procedure codes, but not complete

-meets ram mohan roy, hassuna d'ghies, other reformers around world to meet with them

-British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) occurs, bentham allies get much influence in convention parliament

-bentham allies present constitutional code for influential material, not for all of it, it was indeed influential on post-revolution order

-new constitutional settlement issued, ratified by convention parliament

-codification process pushed by bentham, codes in britain indeed issued but not as thorough and based on happiness principle as bentham wanted

-helps in creation of london university, a non-sectarian equivalent of oxbridge unis

-goa has revolution, adopts benthamic constitutional code as its law

-bentham sends penal code to them too, but dies before completion of procedure and civil codes

-after death, notes posthumously sent, procedure and civil codes of goa based on that

-remembered as highly influential philosopher, also very weird for naming cane "dapple" and stuff

-body preserved and kept at london uni for posterity's sake

-face mummified in maori manner, while procedure goes better than otl his face still looks garish

-runs New Lanark as a benevolent factory owner from 1800 to 1824

-becomes very influential and his plans see widespread admiration

-as far afield of France and in the US

-post War of the French Revolution (1792-1804) and over 1810s with economic crisis attempts to promote back to the farms work to relieve unemployment

-Heads of British Isles > 1797-1814 Henry Addington (Tory) is sympathetic to these reform proposals

-in 1813 Addington passes a law to enact village scheme

-however when it ends up being horrid scheme he opposes it

-over years that follows he becomes an advocate of cooperative villages run by villagers themselves

-this wins him acclaim from a number of radicals

-however this also leads to him being viewed as an undesirable by British government

-after the British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) tries to get his ideas into practice

-decides to implement labor exchange system

-"National Equitable Labour Exchange" established in London where independent workers can sell their produce for labor notes which can be exchanged for other goods

-with Bank promissory notes having crashed and gold having been hoarded, labor notes become an important holder of credit

-despite a lot of trenchant criticism from goldbug radicals it does become fairly influential

-Labour Exchanges, Banks, and Bazaars become established in several other British cities

-however, as United Bank slowly buys up gold it's able to print more notes and put them into flow

-and with Australia Gold Rush the United Bank buys it up and this allows for easy credit

-also faced with issue that these notes maintain fixed prices based on notes because they're fixed on hours

-and this results in Labour Notes declining

-but they do remain a sort of fixture of economy linking together the cooperative movement as a force

-additionally tries to establish a new and improved New Lanark

-in the form of "New Science Hall" outside London

-huge building complex with housing and everything else

-also using Labour Notes as currency

-faced with collapse as it's unable to compete with market economy

-with rise of labor activity with abolition of Combination Acts becomes leading member of labor movement

-brings unions towards agenda of reconstructing society around cooperative system

-and slowly sees more and more unions towards his cause

-in 1842 along with William Lovett assembles Conventions > Convention of the Mechanics' Associations (1842) to unify agenda

-several industries unified into several associations under unions, and then together they form economy

-they exchange goods between each other through labour bazaars

-however, there are very low fees which makes funding this movement tough

-gets worse after the treasurer absconds to the US with the money in 1844

-Convention collapses afterwards

-and then attention drawn by the dramatic events at Parliament

-membership of National Volunteers drawn somewhat from lower middle classes but a lot also from "respectable" members of working class

-considered founding father of Ideology > Associationism

1819-1821: Auditor of the Council of State of France

1822-1824: Tribune of France for Loiret

1824-1827: Councillor of State of France for Loiret

1829-1836: Member of Parliament for the 2nd Grand Division of King's County

1838-1854: Director of the National Land Company

1843-1847: Member of Parliament for the 3rd Grand Division of Cork County

1847-1856: Member of the Irish Legislative Assembly for the 3rd Grand Division of Cork County

1859-1865: Tribune of France for Loiret

-born in an Ireland going through the War of the French Revolution (1792-1804) > Great Irish Rebellion (1796-9), with Hoche's invasion in 1796

-his father and uncle big United Irishmen, uncle in particular

-in the end defeated

-and culminates with Hoche killed in 1799, the O'Connors fleeing to France shortly afterwards

-O'Connor grows up in France

-among Irish community there, his uncle is leader

-Feargus (very Irish version of name) grows up as elite in this context

-becomes lawyer, family connections mean he gets lucrative post of Auditor of Council of State

-does shit

-eventually elected to Legislative Assembly

-doesn't mean much, just that he votes silently

-but known to be oppositionist

-with downfall of Sieyesian order, gets elected as Tribune during Second French War (1821-32)

-very unpopular for abrasive personality despite his undoubted charisma, in dead end

-with British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9), moves to British Isles

-gets elected to revolutionary House of Commons from his uncle's old constituency

-eligible as natural-born

-becomes quixotic Irish nationalist for his strong French accent

-and as a United Irishman in contrast to Daniel O'Connell who he regards as a "Jesuit" and his nonviolence as stupid

-really really abrasive, rubs a lot of people very very badly but gets popularity against O'Connell's Radical Party fusionism

-eventually loses election

-denies he's anti-Catholic, states he believes in religious unity, but attacks on O'Connell really piss people off

-later on allies with land reform movement

-including proto-Ideology > Associationism movement by Bronterre

-eventually is founding member of National Land Company

-which seeks to establish homesteads from the Crown and Church land being sold off

-success for a while but eventually good land runs out, bubble pops

-company dies

-eventually gets elected as MP during O'Connellite repeal wave

-during 1846-7 period, when O'Connell achieves compromise (he intends to be "instalment" towards total repeal), O'Connor furiously denounces this as a betrayal

-and even his party receives seats during 1847 election

-in the end, however, O'Connell achieves very broad reaching autonomy and intends for it to be one step towards freedom

-gets elected as MLA to new Irish Legislative Assembly

-speaks positively about O'Connell with great reluctance after his death

-still doesn't help him much

-when Land Company goes under and O'Connellite radicals get subsumed into Radical Party, really he has no choice but to retire

-returns to France, gets elected in some role, then dies

1780-1793: Member of the Crew of four Royal Navy ships

1793-1795: Midshipman of the HMS Thetis

1795-1800: Lieutenant of the HMS Barfleur

1800-1801: Commander of the HMS Speedy

1801-1818: Vice-Captain in the Royal Navy

-1801-1804: Commander of the HMS Arab

1804-1806: Postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh

-with end of War of the French Revolution (1792-1804) goes to university at Edinburgh

-seeking afterwards to get a career in politics

-falls under the influence of radical professors and becomes a Radical

-blaming rotten system of representation for naval corruption

1810-1821: Member of Parliament for Ilchester

-as a popular navy man wins election

-and representing independence against a borough being encroached by a man trying to make it a pocket borough

-in Parliament makes himself known for his radicalism and charisma

-becoming scourge of government in this regard

-but still well-respected enough for his naval skill, so not court-martialled for his vituperative remarks

1821-1827: Commodore in the Royal Navy

-with Second French War (1821-32) enlists in the navy

-sent to British Platina to keep him far away from Britain proper and so hopefully he dies in battle

-in Platina, sympathetic to rebels and tries to conciliate them

-but can never get viceroy to agree to his promises

-does defeat Spanish navy in many battles

-however, from land, Heads of Platina > 1825-1829 Bernardino Rivadavia declares independence in 1825

-and this means Cochrane has little to hold on to rather than Montevideo which is resentful

-successfully convinces authorities this is a lost cause in 1826

-then he sweeps to Jamaica for further orders

-ordered to Mediterranean to fight French over Minorca and Malta and he makes his return

-however, then navy around British Isles mutinies, declares Cochrane their representative

1827-1828: President of the Delegates of the Fleet of the British Isles

-diverts from path to instead move towards British Isles to lead mutinying fleet

-battles British ships and heads towards London

-this helps British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) to become bigger

-after revolution ends swears loyalty to the Whig revolutionries

-defeats naval attempt to restore the Guelphs to power

-sits in the Convention Parliament as President of the Delegates of the Fleet

-however, many fear he's a wannabe despot

-send him on a job

1828-1834: Admiral of the Green of the British Navy

-made "Admiral of the Green", a brand new position

-organized into a navy battalion post-Revolution

-to establish loyalty of colonies

-sent to India to make loyalty of British Raj assured

-in Bombay secures loyalty swiftly

-however decides out of nowhere to storm Mormugao

-and help establish Goan Republic

-in Madras storms in, breaks jails, and gets loyalty of mutinying white soldiers

-additionally sends detachments to East Indies, Australia

-destroys British Guelphite fleet near New Erin

-as foremost leader of the navy engaged in campaign of rapid modernization

1834-1837: Minister of the Navy

1837-1846: Admiral of the Green of the British Navy

1846-1857: Prime Minister of the British Isles

-nee Martineau

-after the British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) becomes increasingly influential in the intelligentsia

-writes a series of books illustrating, popularizing notions of economics in 1834

-makes her a big name

-facing bad health, goes travelling around in the US in 1834-6, publishes findings in the form of Society in America (1837)

-very harshly critical of slavery and treatment of women

-that it comes very soon after Fugitive Slave Act makes it very trenchant

-in 1838 marries Erasmus Alvey Darwin

-despite some controversy in family over her Unitarian views, post-revolution, Unitarians are now a lot more acceptable in the family

-afterwards writes a historical romance about Heads of Haiti > 1797-1821 Toussaint Louverture

-and then a romantic novel which is a best seller