question: Who wrote The Annual Register and also served for many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party?
answer: Edmund Burke
context: Title: British general election, 1747
  Passage: The British general election, 1747, returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.  The election saw Henry Pelham's Whig government increase its majority and the Tories continue their decline.  By 1747, thirty years of Whig oligarchy and systematic corruption had weakened party ties substantially; despite the fact that Walpole, the main reason for the split that led to the creation of the Patriot Whig faction, had resigned, there were still almost as many Whigs in opposition to the ministry as there were Tories, and the real struggle for power was between various feuding factions of Whig aristocrats rather than between the old parties.  The Tories had become an irrelevant group of country gentlemen who had resigned themselves to permanent opposition.
  Title: James Whitley Deans Dundas
  Passage: Admiral Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas GCB (4 December 1785 – 3 October 1862) was a Royal Navy officer.  He took part in the Napoleonic Wars, first as a junior officer when he took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in Autumn 1799 and later as a commander when he was in action at Copenhagen Dockyard shortly after the capture of that City in August 1807.  He also served as Whig Member of Parliament for Greenwich and then for Devizes and became First Naval Lord in the First Russell ministry in July 1847 and in that role his service was dominated by the needs of Whig party.  He was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean in 1852 and led all naval operations in the Black Sea including the bombardment of Sevastopol in October 1854 during the Crimean War.
  Title: The Annual Register
  Passage: The Annual Register (originally subtitled "A View of the History, Politicks and Literature of the Year ...") is a long-established reference work, written and published each year, which records and analyses the year’s major events, developments and trends throughout the world.  It was first written in 1758 under the editorship of Edmund Burke, and has been produced continuously since that date.  In its current form the first half of the book comprises articles on each of the world’s countries or regions, while the latter half contains articles on international organisations, economics, the environment, science, law, religion, the arts and sport, together with obituaries, a chronicle of major events and selected documents.  In addition to being produced annually in hardback, the book is also published electronically, and its entire 250-year archive is available online from its publisher, ProQuest.
  Title: John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
  Passage: John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions during the mid-19th century.  Scion of one of the most powerful aristocratic families, his great achievements, says A. J. P. Taylor, were based on his indefatigable battles in Parliament over the years on behalf of the expansion of liberty; after each loss he tried again and again, until finally his efforts were largely successful.  E. L. Woodward, however, argued that he was too much the abstract theorist, so that "He was more concerned with the removal of obstacles to civil liberty than with the creation of a more reasonable and civilised society".  Nevertheless Russell led his Whig Party into support for reform; he was the principal architect of the great Reform Act of 1832.  As Prime Minister his luck ran out.  He headed a government that failed to deal with a famine in Ireland that caused the loss of a quarter of its population.  Taylor concludes that as prime minister, he was not a success.  Indeed, his Government of 1846 to 1852 was the ruin of the Whig party: it never composed a Government again, and his Government of 1865 to 1866, which might be described as the first Liberal Government, was very nearly the ruin of the Liberal party also.
  Title: Leaders of the British Whig Party
  Passage: This is a list of the Leaders of the British Whig Party.  It begins in 1830 as, in the words of J C Sainty, 'it would be misleading to convey the impression that there was in any precise sense a Leader of the Whig Party in the House of Lords before 1830'.  Also, Cook & Stevenson, "British Historical Facts 1760-1830" have no section for party leaders in either House of Parliament.  The section on 'Overall Leaders' gives details of those who were either the Prime Minister or a former Prime Minister who was still in Parliament and leading the Whig Party in the House in which he sat.
  Title: Charles A. Wickliffe
  Passage: Charles Anderson Wickliffe (June 8, 1788 – October 31, 1869) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.  He also served as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, the 14th Governor of Kentucky, and was appointed Postmaster General by President John Tyler.  Though he consistently identified with the Whig Party, he was politically independent, and often had differences of opinion with Whig founder and fellow Kentuckian Henry Clay.
  Title: Patriot Whigs
  Passage: The Patriot Whigs and, later Patriot Party, was a group within the Whig party in Great Britain from 1725 to 1803.  The group was formed in opposition to the ministry of Robert Walpole in the House of Commons in 1725, when William Pulteney (later 1st Earl of Bath) and seventeen other Whigs joined with the Tory party in attacks against the ministry.  By the middle of the 1730s, there were over one hundred opposition Whigs in the Commons, many of whom embraced the Patriot label.  For many years they provided a more effective opposition to the Walpole administration than the Tories.
  Title: Dennis Pennington
  Passage: Dennis Pennington (May 18, 1776 – September 2, 1854) was a farmer and a stonemason who became known for his many years in public office as an early legislator in the Indiana Territory and in Indiana's General Assembly as a representative of Harrison County, Indiana.  Pennington, a member of the Whig Party, became the first speaker of the Indiana territorial legislature's lower house in 1810, served as the territory's census enumerator in 1815, and represented Harrison County as one of its five delegates to the constitutional convention of 1816.  Pennington was the first speaker of the Indiana Senate (1816 to 1818), and served in the state legislature for eighteen years, which included five years in the Indiana House of Representatives and thirteen years in the Indiana Senate.  His major political contributions relate to his strong opposition to slavery.  Pennington ran unsuccessfully for Indiana's Lieutenant Governor in 1825.  In addition to his service in the state legislature, Penning was a Harrison County sheriff and a justice of the peace, a trustee of Indiana University, and a member of the Grand Lodge of Indiana.  He also supervised construction of the limestone courthouse that served as Indiana's first state capitol building in Corydon, Indiana.  The historic Old Capitol, the seat of state government from 1816 to 1825, is one of his most enduring legacies.  Fondly remembered as "Old Uncle Dennis" or "Father Pennington," he was known for his common sense and strong character and became one of Harrison County's most influential citizens.
  Title: Edmund Burke
  Passage: Edmund Burke ( ; 12 January <nowiki>[</nowiki>NS<nowiki>]</nowiki> 17299 July 1797) was an Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after moving to London, served as a member of parliament (MP) for many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.
  Title: Canadian Parliamentary Guide
  Passage: The Canadian Parliamentary Guide, formerly known as the "Canadian Parliamentary Companion" and the "Canadian Parliamentary Companion and Annual Register", is a reference publication which lists the members of the Canadian House of Commons and the Senate of Canada as well as of the provincial and territorial legislatures.
citations: The Annual Register Edmund Burke