Richard Carlile
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Biographical Info
Born: 1790
Died: 1843
English publisher and journalist who protested English monarchy and promoted the parliamentary system
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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
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William Cobbett
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Biographical Info
Born: 1763
Died: 1835
English journalist who promoted the parliamentary system, free speech, and the rights of the poor
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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
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
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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
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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
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William Wilberforce
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Biographical Info
Born: 1759
Died: 1833
English Abolitionist
Visit Compton's Encyclopedia Online and search for William Wilberforce and the abolitionist movement in England.
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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
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