Alexander Sharp, 1821 – 1849
Alexander Sharp was imprisoned in 1848 after speaking at a series of meetings at Clerkenwell Green and Bishop Bonner’s Fields
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Chartist Ancestors tells the life stories of dozens of people who played their part in the movement. Some are well-known historical figures, but others have been erased from the history books by the passage of time.
The biographies included below are just the most recent of all those on the site. For a full list, take a look at the Contents page.
Alexander Sharp was imprisoned in 1848 after speaking at a series of meetings at Clerkenwell Green and Bishop Bonner’s Fields
Read MoreHenry Hanshard had been among the crowd at a meeting of Chartist and Irish Confederates in Novia Scotia Gardens, but
Read MoreAllen Davenport played relatively little direct part in Chartism. However, as president of the London Democratic Association he provided a
Read MoreHenry Hetherington had been a central figure in London radicalism since the early 1830s. Best known as publisher of the
Read MoreThe death of the Greenwich Chartist May Paris from Asiatic Cholera at the age of 42 in the summer of
Read MoreBorn in Sunderland on 6 December 1815, George Binns was one of 15 children. His father (also George) was a
Read MoreAnthony William John Cavalier was born in Stepney, London. At the age of 17, a year after the death of
Read MoreEmployed as a weaver at Dean Clough, Benjamin Rushton had led a procession from Halifax to Huddersfield after Peterloo in
Read MoreJeremiah Yates was an early supporter of the Chartist cause who worked as a potter, alongside which he sold a
Read MoreBy the time William Lovett published his autobiography in 1876, he was able to look back on a long life
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