What are the greatest accomplishments of Edmund Burke?

Native-born Irishman Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was best
known as a proponent of the American colonies during the American Revolution and for his
opposition to the French Revolution. He was a leader of the Whig party and has been
dubbed the founder of modern conservatism. He was perhaps the first Catholic to have
taken "the oath of supremacy, and declare against transubstantiation" during the 18th
century. He founded Dublin's Trinity College Debating Club, which (following a merger)
became the oldest undergraduate society in the world. Burke became a member of the House
of Commons in 1765. He later defended the French monarchy and claimed man's right to
maintain prejudice in his most famous work, Reflections on the Revolution in
France, considered a "manifesto in conservative
thought."