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John Bull

The Oxford Companion to British History | 2002 | | Copyright

John Bull. The character of John Bull was invented by John Arbuthnot in a series of pamphlets, Law is a Bottomless Pit, published in 1712. Bull's sturdy honesty contrasted with the wily Frenchman Lewis Baboon. He became popular with cartoonists in the early 19th cent. and acquired the Pickwickian squat top hat and the Union Jack waistcoat. His heyday was the later Victorian period, when he appeared in countless Punch cartoons. A popular magazine, taking the name, was founded in 1906 by Horatio Bottomley.

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John Bull

A Dictionary of British History | 2004 | | Copyright

John Bull The character of John Bull was invented by John Arbuthnot in a series of pamphlets, Law is a Bottomless Pit, published in 1712. Bull's sturdy honesty contrasted with the wily Frenchman Lewis Baboon. He became popular with cartoonists in the early 19th cent. and acquired the Pickwickian squat top hat and the Union Jack waistcoat.

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John Bull

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

John Bull Symbolic representation of the typical Englishman and, by extension, of England itself. The name was popularized by Dr John Arbuthnot's History of John Bull (1712).

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John Bull

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

John Bull • n. a personification of England or the typical Englishman, represented as a stout, red-faced farmer in a top hat and high boots.

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John Bull

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

John Bull see Arbuthnot, John .

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Bull, John

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Bull, John, see John Bull.

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