EDMUND Burke ;)
My late friend and neighbor, Eveline Burke (born 1896 - died age 103, 1999) was a direct descendant.
Genes do get inherited. She was brilliant - and witty -
Edmund Burke's detailed analysis of the amazing state of commerce in America at that late-1700's date, as well as his attribution of the causes of that economic activity to the "spirit of liberty" of the colonists, certainly attest to the progress of those rugged and independent inhabitants of America, unfettered by heavy-handed government regulation and intrusion.