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He frequently attended the Robin Hood debating society which held meetings in Butcher Row, Temple Bar.
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Caleb Jeacocke
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The oratory of Jeacocke gained a reputation, as more effective than that of Edmund Burke and others Oliver Goldsmith was introduced to the society by Samuel Derrick. At a time when Jeacocke was president, sitting in a large gilt chair, Goldsmith commented that nature had meant him for a lord chancellor.
"Number, no," whispered Derrick, "only for a master of the rolls".
Jeacocke died on 7 January 1786, in Denmark Street, Soho, London. He was author of A Vindication of the Moral Character of the Apostle Paul against the Charges of Hypocrisy and Insincerity brought by Lord Bolingbroke, Doctor Middleton, and others, London, 1765.
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Quotations: "Number, no," whispered Derrick, "only for a master of the rolls".
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Jeacocke carried on the business of a baker in High Street, Saint Giles"s, London, and became a director of the Hand-in-Hand fire office, and a member of the Skinners" Company.
