Politician. Worked closely with Richard Cobden in the campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws. As a Quaker he was opposed to inequalities between individuals and groups; as a member of a mill-owning family he was opposed to trade unions and social reform which affected factories. MP for Durham and then Birmingham. Died at the home he had built 50 years before, in Rochdale.
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John Bright
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Anti-Corn Law League
On this site in the years 1844-1846 were situated the London offices of the A...
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William Ian Baverstock Brooks
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
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Councillor H. Adams
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, and of the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
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Francis Percy Hodes
Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Penge Urban District Council 1921 - 22. In 1937, when was elected as one of the County Aldermen for Kent he was described as a retired engineer and his add...
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