... Pleasant, where his father owned th e Bowling Green Tavern and a market garden, he became a lawyer, poet, h i storian, botanist, Whig Member of Parliament for Liverpool, and banker. He suffered through his humanitarianism and generosity, for his continued attacks ...

... Addison was not only an essayist. He also wrote poems both in English and Latin and a tragedy called Cato. In politics he was a Whig. and was Under-Secretary of State, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and later a Lord Commissioner of Trade. A friend of Swift, ...