Talk:George Duckett (Calne MP)

Any George I political experts who drop by....
I have a question. 1717, Duckett does his book on the value of ecclesiastical lands at the time of the dissolution. I follow others by saying that's apolitical, but I'm not at all sure that it is. George I is on the throne, and he's low church. Monasteries and religious houses still existed in the Anglican church. More to the point, th church held a lot of land. Would a thing like this have been bait to the king -- a promise of a man who is not afraid to tell the crown how much they could get by taking the lands of the church? Could it have been a threat to the bishops? It's quite a time to do a book like that, and, given how everything else Duckett did was Whig, I wonder if it is innocent. Wondering isn't enough, of course, for including in the article. Geogre (talk) 13:45, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Unboxing Day
The box on this article competed with the lede and said.... Well, it said that he was an MP and attorney, which is what the first sentence said. It then had his descendants. Well, genealogy is something Wikipedia is not. A succession box for MP is fine, I suppose, if it's at the bottom of the article, where people wanting to know the history of a seat may find it. There isn't anything about Duckett that really makes him boxable, and so it was noise, not signal. Utgard Loki (talk) 14:41, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I guess it wasn't so controversial after all. Huh.  Utgard Loki (talk) 19:06, 21 January 2009 (UTC)