Political Career
- 184x Founder & Branch Secretary of Uxbridge Chartists
- 184x Founder & Branch Secretary of Eton Chartists
- 1851 Member of committee appointed to meet Lajos Kossuth
- 185x Chartist Delegate
- 185x Christian Socialist Representative
- 185x Founder of The Propagandists
- 1863 Chairman of the Universal League for the Material Elevation of the Industrious Classes
- 1864 Member of committee appointed to meet Giuseppe Garibaldi
- 1865 Member of the Executive Committee of the Reform League
- 1868 Liberal Party election agent
- 1870 Director of Adelphi Permanent Building Society
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