Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: A British Intellectual HistoryBetween 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730 1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the founder of modern conservatism an intellectual tradition which is also deeply connected to the identity of the British Conservative Party. The idea of Burkean conservatism a political philosophy which upholds the authority of tradition, the organic, historic