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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David Burnett, FSI
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.
1 memorial
Sir Robert Wroth
Lord of the Manor of Hamstede in the last quarter of the 16th Century.
1 memorial
Councillor L. Goldstein
Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926.
1 memorial
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Founded by the merger of the National Central Society for Women's Suffrage and the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. These were the suffragists, who used legal campaig...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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