| 词条 | John Asgill |
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John Asgill (25 March 1659 – 10 November 1738) was an eccentric English writer and politician. LifeHe studied law at the Middle Temple, 1686, and was called to the bar in 1692. He founded the first land bank in 1695 with Nicholas Barbon, which, after proving to be a profitable venture, merged with the land bank of John Briscoe in 1696. However, after profits dropped, the bank closed in 1699. He was then elected that year as Member of Parliament for Bramber.[1] In 1700 Asgill had published An Argument Proving, that … Man may be Translated, a pamphlet aiming to prove that death was not obligatory upon Christians, which, much to his surprise, caused a public outcry and led to his expulsion from the Irish House of Commons in 1703, only a short time after he had stood successfully for Enniscorthy. He was elected to the English House of Commons for Bramber in 1702. On 12 June 1707 he was arrested and imprisoned at Fleet Prison for debt; he claimed parliamentary immunity as a member of a current parliament despite the confusion whether the last English parliament and the first Parliament of Great Britain were the same body, and in December the House of Commons agreed. Two days after ordering his release, the House expelled him for authoring a blasphemous book. He fell on hard times, and passed the rest of his life between the Fleet prison and the King's Bench, but his zeal as a pamphleteer continued unabated. References{{Cite SBDEL|wstitle=Asgill, John}}Notes1. ^{{ODNBweb|id=734|title=Asgill, John|first=Richard L.|last=Greaves}}. {{DNBfirst|wstitle=Asgill, John}} Further readingEntry at History of Parliament OnlineAttribution{{A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature}}{{s-start}}{{s-par|ie}}{{s-bef| before = Richard BarryJohn Seymour }}{{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Enniscorthy | alongside = Morley Saunders | years = 1703 }}{{s-aft| after = Morley Saunders William Berry }}{{s-par|en}}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Bramber | with = Francis Seymour-Conway | with2 = John Middleton | with3 = Samuel Sambrooke | with4 = The Viscount Windsor | before = Francis Seymour-Conway Thomas Owen | after = The Viscount Windsor William Shippen | years = 1702–1707}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Asgill, John}} 20 : 1659 births|1738 deaths|English male writers|English MPs 1702–1705|English MPs 1705–1707|British MPs 1707–08|Irish MPs 1703–13|Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wexford constituencies|Prisoners in Fleet Prison|Pamphleteers|People of the Stuart period|18th-century English people|English lawyers|17th-century English lawyers|17th-century English writers|17th-century male writers|Members of the Middle Temple|People imprisoned for debt|Expelled members of the Parliament of Great Britain|People from Worcestershire (before 1974) |
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