
Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke Author of introduction, etc. · English
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Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke Author of introduction, etc. · English
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INTRODUCTION. Henry St. John, who became Viscount Bolingbroke in 1712, was born on the 1st of October, 1678, at the family manor of Battersea, then a country village. His grandfather, Sir Walter St. John, lived there with his wife Johanna,—daughter to Cromwell’s Chief Justice, Oliver St. John,—in one home with the child’s father, Henry St. John, who was married to the second daughter of Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick. The child’s grandfather, a man of high character, lived to the age of

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