The 250th Anniversary of Edmund Burke’s “Conciliation with the Colonies” Speech in Parliament

Edmund Burke was born January 12, 1729 in Dublin, Ireland. Though his mother, Mary, was a Roman Catholic, he adhered to the Protestant beliefs of his father, Richard, remaining in the Anglican Church. While attending Protestant Trinity College in 1744, he started his own debating society, “Edmund Burke’s Club.” Though his father desired him to…