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Ashurst, William Henry [pseud. Edward Search] (bap. 1791?, d. 1855), lawyer and radical  

Matthew Lee

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Ashurst, William Henry [pseud. Edward Search] (bap. 1791?, d. 1855), lawyer and radical, was born in London, and was probably the William Henry Ashurst baptized on 20 March 1791 at St Luke's, Old Street, the son of Brusel Ashurst and his wife, ...

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Baird, John (1788–1820), radical weaver  

Peter Berresford Ellis

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Baird, John (1788–1820), radical, was, with Andrew Hardie (1792–1820) and James Wilson (1757–1820), one of the three ‘Radical Martyrs’ executed for their part in the Scottish insurrection of April 1820. Baird, born in Condorrat, Stirling, was the third son of a ...

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Bamford, Samuel (1788–1872), radical  

Peter Spence

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Bamford, Samuel (1788–1872), radical, was born in Middleton, Lancashire, on 28 February 1788, one of five children of Daniel Bamford, a dissenting muslin weaver, part-time teacher, and later master of the Salford workhouse, and his wife, Hannah (1755–1795). After private tuition Bamford was sent to the ...

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Beales, Edmond (1803–1881)  

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Edmond Beales (1803–1881) by unknown engraver Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Beales, Edmond (1803–1881), radical  

Thompson Cooper

revised by Matthew Lee

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Beales, Edmond (1803–1881), radical, was born at Newnham, Cambridge, on 3 July 1803, the son of Samuel Pickering Beales, a merchant who acquired local celebrity as a political reformer, and his wife, Martha, daughter of John Curtis. He was educated at Bury St Edmunds grammar school...

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Benbow, William (1787–1864), radical and publisher  

Malcolm Chase

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Benbow, William (1787–1864), radical and publisher, was born at Middlewich, Cheshire, where he was baptized on 21 February 1787, one of thirteen children of William Benbow (bap. 1750, d. 1817), shoemaker, and his wife, Hannah, née Chear (bap. 1752, d. 1828)...

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Blackner, John (1770?–1816), radical and county historian  

Mark Pottle

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Blackner, John (1770?–1816), radical and county historian, was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. He served an apprenticeship to a stocking maker in his native town, and there married Sarah, née Brown, sister of a 'respectable' farmer in Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, with whom he had four sons and three daughters. Illiterate at the time of his marriage, he taught himself to read and write soon after moving to ...

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Blakey, Robert [pseud. Palmer Hackle] (1795–1878), radical and historian of philosophy  

Roger Hawkins

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Blakey, Robert [pseud. Palmer Hackle] (1795–1878), radical and historian of philosophy, son of Robert Blakey (c.1774–1796), mechanic, and his wife, Elizabeth Laws (b. 1773), was born in Manchester Street, Morpeth, Northumberland, on 18 May 1795. His father died when he was nine months old. When he was six, he was taken charge of by his grandmother, also ...

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Bonney, John Augustus (1763–1813)  

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John Augustus Bonney (1763–1813) by Peltro William Tomkins, pubd 1794 (after W. White) © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Bonney, John Augustus (1763–1813), lawyer and political reformer  

John Bugg

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26 May 2016

Bonney, John Augustus (1763–1813), lawyer and political reformer, was born in London on 16 June 1763, and baptized on 20 June at St James's, Piccadilly, London. He was the youngest of the nine children of Thomas Bonney (1710–1764), rector of St Mary Axe, London...

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Broadhurst, Mary Adelaide (1860–1928), agricultural reformer and radical  

John Martin

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Broadhurst, Mary Adelaide (1860–1928), agricultural reformer and radical, was born at Chorlton upon Medlock, Lancashire, on 23 May 1860, the second daughter of William Broadhurst, bookkeeper for a bank, accountant, and city councillor in Manchester, and his wife, Maria, née Hutchinson. She gained an MA degree at ...

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Callender, James Thomson (1758–1803), political writer and radical  

Michael Durey

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Callender, James Thomson (1758–1803), political writer and radical, was born in Scotland, the son of a tobacconist, though further details of his early years are obscure. The poet James Thomson may have been a relative. Callender was raised as a Presbyterian of the strongly Calvinist variety, possibly in ...

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Collet, Collet Dobson (1812–1898), radical and tax reformer  

Miles Taylor

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Collet, Collet Dobson (1812–1898), radical and tax reformer, was born on 31 December 1812 in London. He was the eldest son of John Dobson (1778–1827), a London merchant, and his wife (and first cousin), Elizabeth Barker (1787–1875). Collet assumed the name of his maternal grandparents, as did his sister, ...

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Collet, Collet Dobson (1812–1898)  

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23 September 2004
Collet Dobson Collet (1812–1898) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Cookman, George (bap. 1774, d. 1856), businessman, lay preacher, and radical politician  

Robb Robinson

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06 October 2016

Cookman, George (bap. 1774, d. 1856), businessman, lay preacher, and radical politician, was baptized on 20 January 1774 in the church of St Peter in the village of Owthorne, on the east Yorkshire coast, the son of Grimston Cookman, yeoman, and his wife, ...

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Danvers, Henry (b. in or before 1619, d. 1687/8), General Baptist preacher and radical  

Richard L. Greaves

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Danvers, Henry (b. in or before 1619, d. 1687/8), General Baptist preacher and radical, was born at Swithland, Leicestershire, the second son of William Danvers (d. 1656), gentleman, and his wife, Elizabeth. A notation on the title-page of his The Mystery of Magistracy Unvailed...

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Davidson, John Morrison (1843–1916), radical and journalist  

H. C. G. Matthew

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Davidson, John Morrison (1843–1916), radical and journalist, was born in a roadside house in the parish of Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, the younger son of the unmarried Mary Warrender, farm labourer, and Thomas Davidson, farm labourer, of Hatton, Aberdeenshire. Thomas Davidson (1840–1900) was his elder brother. He was sickly as a child and unable to walk to school until he was nine, when his education began at the parish school at ...

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Detrosier, Rowland [formerly Rowley Barnes] (1800?–1834), freethinking radical and popular lecturer  

Matthew Lee

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Detrosier, Rowland [formerly Rowley Barnes] (1800?–1834), freethinking radical and popular lecturer, was born in London, the son of a Manchester merchant, Robert Norris, and a Frenchwoman named Detrosier. His parents abandoned him soon after his birth and he was adopted by a Swedenborgian tailor from ...

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Dickson, William Steel (1744–1824), minister of the Presbyterian General Synod of Ulster and political radical  

W. D. Bailie

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Dickson, William Steel (1744–1824), minister of the Presbyterian General Synod of Ulster and political radical, was born William Dickson on Christmas day 1744, the eldest son of John Dickson, farmer, and his wife, Jane Steel, at Ballycraigy, in the parish of Carnmoney, co. Antrim...

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Doherty, John (1797/8–1854), trade unionist and political radical  

John Saville

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Doherty, John (1797/8–1854), trade unionist and political radical, was born in Ireland but his exact date of birth is not certain. He came from a labouring family and he himself began work in the local cotton industry at the age of ten. In 1816 he joined the increasing flow of Irish migrants to ...