Samuel Johnson (pamphleteer)

Frontispiece of a 1689 collection of works by Samuel Johnson
For other people named Samuel Johnson, see Samuel Johnson (disambiguation).

Samuel Johnson (1649–1703) was an English clergyman and political writer, sometimes called "the Whig Johnson" to distinguish him from the author and lexicographer of the same name, who was a Tory in politics and lived after him. He is one of the best known pamphlet writers who developed Whig resistance theory.[1]

  1. ^ Nicholas Phillipson; Quentin Skinner (26 February 1993). Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain. Cambridge University Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-521-39242-6. Retrieved 4 April 2013.