Biography fraser james oglethorpe
James Edward Oglethorpe () is known to history as a politician, town planner, soldier, humanist, philanthropist, and abolitionist..
Brief Biography
Eleanor and Theophilus Oglethorpe welcomed their 10th and last child, James Edward, into the world on December 22, 1696.
Oglethorpe grew up in a well-connected, wealthy English family with controversial ties to the Jacobite movement.
In 1714, Oglethorpe entered Corpus Christi College at Oxford University where he attended on and off until joining a military academy in Paris and joining the army of Prince Eugene of Savoy during the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-1718.
Oglethorpe successfully ran for Parliament in 1722, winning the Haslemere seat held previously by his father and two older brothers.
Oglethorpe earned a reputation as a reformer early in his parliamentary career.
Oglethorpe was born in Yorkshire in to a wealthy family and did all those things a favored son should do—attend Eton and Oxford and join.
He actively lobbied for reforms in the areas of naval conscription, prisons, and city planning. He belonged to a group of like-minded men who envisioned a new colony—Georgia—as a haven for England’s worthy poor. They drafted a charter for the thirteenth colony in British North America that offere