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William Hogarth

William Hogarth, dressed in period attire, holds a spoon and wears a banner that reads "Give us ife ELEVEN DAY" over his chest.

English painter and printmaker (1697–1764), the great satirist of Georgian London. His series Humours of an Election, painted around 1755, shows a Tory campaign banner reading "Give us our Eleven Days," a slogan lifted from a separate Oxfordshire election dispute. The line outlived its context. Later writers borrowed it wholesale to describe imaginary popular riots over the 1752 calendar change.

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