Royal Bounty Fund
The Royal Bounty Fund was a special British government fund originally set up in 1782 by Edmund Burke. The operation of the fund was always shrouded in secrecy. Gifts, grants and pensions were paid out from the fund under the patronage of the prime minister and no accounts were ever published. From as early as 1802 Treasury officials expressed concerns about the operation of the fund but it was not until 2002 that it was eventually wound down by Tony Blair.[1] One known recipient of funds, granted by A. J. Balfour when he was First Lord of the Treasury, was for the completion of The English Dialect Dictionary.[2]
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Edmund Burke
- A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)
- A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
- Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
- "On American Taxation" (1774)
- Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)
- Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
- Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796)
- Edmund Burke Foundation
- The Club
- Royal Bounty Fund
- Conservatism
- Edmund Burke (Thomas statue)
- Impeachment of Warren Hastings
- Religious thought of Edmund Burke
- Richard Burke Jr. (son)