• Name: Belsham, William
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 1752
• Death Date: 27  November  1827
• Occupation: political writer
• Occupation: historian

Belsham began his literary career with Essays, Philosophical, Historical and Literary (1789) which were well recieved. He followed this with a second collection of essays which again demonstrated his dissenting and reforming principles, including an attack on Edmund Burke. These views were shared with his brother Thomas who was a significant Unitarian preacher. Much of his later life was dedicated to history writing.

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