Sir Roger L’Estrange

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Images

L'Estrange, detail of an oil painting attributed to John Michael Wright, c. 1680; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Read Next

Union Jack flag of Great Britain, united kingdom

What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

London Big Ben from Trafalgar Square traffic in UK

11 Lesser-Known, Mostly Contemporary Paintings You Should Hunt Down the Next Time You’re in London

A Timeline of the World in 8 Maps

Citizen Journalists

Discover

New York NY/ USA- November 23, 2018 Hordes of shoppers throng the Macy's Herald Square flagship store in New York looking for bargains on the day after Thanksgiving, Black Friday.

Why Is It Called Black Friday?

Super Typhoon Noru over the western tropical Pacific Ocean as observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA Aqua satellite July 31 2017

What Is the Difference Between a Typhoon and a Super Typhoon?

Diverse elementary school children wearing school uniforms running outside of school. Boys girls

Pro and Con: School Uniforms

Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)

11 Banned Books Through Time

Sir Roger L’Estrange: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born	December 17, 1616 • England
Died	December 11, 1704 (aged 87) • London • England

Photos

See All Images →

Samuel Johnson

English author

Daniel Defoe

English author

William Hone

English journalist

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

Camille Desmoulins

French journalist

Petko Rachev Slaveykov

Bulgarian author

John Milton

English poet

Virginia Woolf

British writer

Edmund Spenser

English poet

William Penn

English Quaker leader and colonist

John Wilkes

British journalist and politician

Joseph Addison

English author

Thomas Paine

British-American author

Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Richard Steele

British author and politician

Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

British politician

Cobbett, detail of a painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Cobbett

British journalist

Graham Greene

British author

Walter Bagehot

British economist and journalist

Edward Gordon Craig

British actor and director

John Gay

British author

Sir Roger L’Estrange: Facts & Related Content

Facts

Photos

Related Biographies