Yorkshire Maldon - Catalogued by Dalton & Hamer as Yorkshire #3
Edmund Burke was born in 1729 in Dublin to a Catholic mother and a Protestant father and attended a Quaker boarding school. He first entered the House of Commons in 1765 representing Wendover in Buckinghamshire, followed by Bristol, and finally Malton. Edmund was recognised as a gifted orator, notable positions included the abolition of slavery, improved treatment of Indians by the East India Company, an end to the oppression of Catholics, Representative Democracy, and ending capitol punishment. He expressed support for the American colonies and argued for the repeal of taxation without representation, however, he was against independence, instead urging for a peaceful union with the colonies akin to the modern Commonwealth.
The token came with multiple collector rounds and the pedigree goes back to James Atkins. The diesinker was John Westwood.