DId You Know he was a Freemason?

[The_Abbot]

John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797)

English radical, journalist and politician

He was the second son of Israel Wilkes, a successful malt distiller from Clerkenwell. Wilkes was educated initially at an academy at Hertford and then had a private tutor. On 23 May 1747 he was married to Mary Meade, heiress of the manor of Aylesbury. This brought him a comfortable fortune and social status among the gentry of Buckinghamshire. The couple had a daughter but their marriage did not last long. Wilkes used his wife's money to set up as a country squire and to get political status. Wilkes was extremely ugly and had a dreadful squint but he was very witty. During one of his fights with the government he was invited to make up a table at cards but declined, saying: 'Do not ask me, for I am so ignorant that I cannot tell the difference between a king and a knave.' The Earl of Sandwich's comment that Wilkes would die either of the pox or on the gallows brought the response: 'That depends, my lord, whether I embrace your mistress or your principles.

John Wilkes Booth - the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

He was the great grandson of Elizabeth Wilkes, who was related to John Wilkes, after whom he was named.

I haven't found any evidence that John Wilkes Booth was a Freemason

 

[Swiffness!]

read the hollow earth

and the lost continents & hollow earth both are great books

wait, you actually believe in a hollow earth

good lord....dis nigga believe the Savage Land from X-Men is real.....rofl

 

[The_Abbot]

not everything they say in the book is factual but some of it has been proven

 

[Swiffness!]

not everything they say in the book is factual but some of it has been proven

What parts?