John Toland (1670-1722); scholar, unofficial diplomat, pamphleteer and controversialist; died in Putney, London on this day in 1722.

#DIB - https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584

Incendiary: John Toland and the birth of the Irish Enlightenment - https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/

He is buried at Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Putney (the scene of the Putney Debates, 1647). https://www.johntoland.com/2019/03/john-toland-his-life-and-times.html?m=1
The tower of the church survives from that time (my photo)

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Composer George Frideric Händel was born #OnThisDay 1685 in Halle.

Famously his "Messiah" was first performed in Dublin.

A post on its performance (where Swift almost scuppered the whole thing)
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/04/13/swift-handels-messiah/

and on its anti-deist roots & the appeal of that in Ireland (anti-Toland) https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/04/13/words-messiah/

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John Toland, born in Inishowen, Donegal #otd 1670.

DIB: https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584

Derry Journal on Toland & Pantheism - https://www.derryjournal.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/john-toland-sean-eoghain-of-the-books-the-inishowen-founder-of-western-pantheism-3938903

Incendiary: John Toland and the birth of the Irish Enlightenment - https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/

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James Ussher died #OTD 1656.

How Ussher claimed Patrick and the early Irish Church for the Church of Ireland (as did everyone else for their beliefs, including the Deist John Toland).

Appropriating Patrick: Keating, Ussher, Toland and the Early Irish Church – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/17/appropriating-patrick/

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This @HistParl post unfairly maligning #Swords :) https://mas.to/@HistParl/109664408722516474 mentions the Molesworth family who controlled at least one seat in the borough for much of the 18th century.

The featured image is of #RobertMolesworth who created the essential definition of an Old Whig, translated #Francogallia and wrote "An Account of Denmark", both historically useful account and extended attack on #PassiveObedience and clerical control in politics. Also patron of #FrancisHutcheson & #JohnToland

Incendiary: #JohnToland and the birth of the #IrishEnlightenment – https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/

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#IrishPhilosophy and the #SouthSeaBubble

#JohnToland lost all his money. He'd been so broke he'd had to use his patron #RobertMolesworth's name as a guarantor to invest.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584

Perhaps this & his own losses (plus his Old Whig principles) led #RobertMolesworth to call for the "contrivers...of the villanous South-Sea scheme" to be treated as those who killed their fathers in Ancient Rome: "tied in like manner in sacks, and thrown into the Thames.”
https://www.econlib.org/book-chapters/chapter-ch-2-the-south-sea-bubble/