Monarchy
Timelines
- Regency Timeline 1811-1820, site maintained by The Beau Monde, a chapter of the Romance Writers of America
- Chronology of Major Romantic Poets and Their Works
Richard Carlile
Biographical Info
Born: 1790
Died: 1843
- English publisher and journalist who protested English monarchy and promoted the parliamentary system
Major Works
- Reprinted Tom Paine's political pamphlets
- Published Sherwin's Political Register, a journal contributed to by, among others, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron
- Published The Republican, which publicized the Peterloo Massacre
William Cobbett
Biographical Info
Born: 1763
Died: 1835
- English journalist who promoted the parliamentary system, free speech, and the rights of the poor
Major Works
- Published Political Register, a newspaper and later a pamphlet (changed to escape the rising newspaper taxes) which was the main newspaper read by the working class
- 1832-1835: Member of Parliament, attacked corruption in the government and its poor laws
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Biographical Info
Born: 1800
Died: 1859
- Whig Politician
- 1832: Earl Grey appointed Macaulay as a commissioner of the Board of Control
- Supreme Council of India
- 1839: elected to represent Edinburgh in the House of Commons, appointed Secretary of War
- 1857: Lord Palmerston granted Macaulay the title Baron Macaulay of Rothley
Major Works
- 1823-1833: Member, Anti-Slavery Society (Society was disbanded after Abolition of Slavery Act was passed in 1833)
- Interested in utilitarianism and was influenced by the ideas of Jeremy Bentham and Joseph Priestley
- Regular contributor to the Edinburgh Review, a journal formed by Whig politician, Henry Brougham
- Supported the 1832 Reform Act
- 1848, 1855: wrote History of England
William Wilberforce
Biographical Info
Born: 1759
Died: 1833
- English Abolitionist
- Visit Compton's Encyclopedia Online and search for William Wilberforce and the abolitionist movement in England.
Major Works
- Member of Parliament, 1780-1825
- Founded Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787
- Founded Anti-Slavery Society in 1823
- Slavery Abolition Act passed August 1833