A meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League in Exeter Hall in 1846

Ricardo, for example, expressed doubt that the removal of grain tariffs advocated by Richard Cobden and the Anti-Corn Law League would have any general benefits.

* 1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.

* The Anti-Corn Law League is founded in Manchester.

His mother worked with the Anti-Corn Law League, and Pankhurst's paternal grandfather was present at the Peterloo Massacre, when cavalry charged and broke up a crowd demanding parliamentary reform.

Tens of thousands of copies were printed in pamphlet form by the Anti-Corn Law League, the report was quoted in the major newspapers, reprinted in America and published in an abridged form by The Spectator.

The Anti-Corn Law League, initiated during 1838, was agitating peacefully for repeal.

Taylor published a number of books as an Anti-Corn Law propagandist, most notably, The Natural History of Society ( 1841 ), Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire ( 1842 ), and Factories and the Factory System ( 1844 ).

Cobden and the rest of the Anti-Corn Law League believed in the view that cheap food meant greater real wages and Cobden praised a speech by a working man who said:

The magazine The Economist was initiated during September 1843 by politician James Wilson with help from the Anti-Corn Law League ; his son-in-law Walter Bagehot later became the editor of this newspaper.

The Leeds Mercury headlined them ' The Chartist Insurrection ', but suspicion also hung over the Anti-Corn Law League that manufacturers among its members deliberately closed mills to stir-up unrest.

After 1848 middle class parliamentary Radicals continued to press for universal franchise, and were joined by some supporters of the Anti-Corn Law League, with John Bright and the Reform League agitating in the country.

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By adopting techniques used by the Anti-Corn Law League, their strategy was ultimately successful: local offices were acquired, secretaries hired and further meetings organised.

He entered the struggle for free trade, and obtained in 1842 the prize offered by the Anti-Corn Law League for the best essay on Agriculture and the Corn Laws.

John Bright ( 16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889 ), Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League.

His first speech on the Corn Laws was made at Rochdale in 1838, and in the same year he joined the Manchester provisional committee which in 1839 founded the Anti-Corn Law League He was still only the local public man, taking part in all public movements, especially in opposition to John Feilden's proposed factory legislation, and to the Rochdale church-rate.

In November of the same year there was a dinner in Bolton in honour of Abraham Paulton, who had just returned from an unsuccessful Anti-Corn Law tour in Scotland.

Meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League in Exeter Hall in 1846.

In the Anti-Corn Law movement the two speakers complemented of each other.

He had been all over England and Scotland addressing vast meetings and, as a rule, carrying them with him ; he had taken a leading part in a conference held by the Anti-Corn Law League in London had led deputations to the Duke of Sussex, to Sir James Graham, then home secretary, and to Lord Ripen and Gladstone, the secretary and under secretary of the Board of Trade ; and he was universally recognised as the chief orator of the Free Trade movement.

He was there, he said, " not only as one of the representatives of the city of Durham, but also as one of the representatives of that benevolent organisation, the Anti-Corn Law League.

He was an active member of the Liberal Party and the Anti-Corn Law League.

Bolton's first Mayor, Charles James Darbishire was sympathetic to Chartism and a supporter of the Anti-Corn Law League.

A meeting of the Anti-Corn Law League in Exeter Hall during 1846

The Anti-Corn Law League was in effect the resumption of the Anti-Corn Law Association, which had been created in London during 1836 but did not obtain widespread popularity.

Hodgskin viewed the demise of the Corn Laws as the first step to the downfall of government and his libertarian anarchism was regarded as too radical by many of the liberals of the Anti-Corn Law League.

From its inception the Anti-Corn Law League continually vied with the Chartists for the support of the workers.

The benign intentions of the United States were also argued by John Bright and Richard Cobden, strong supporters of the United States and leaders of the Anti-Corn Law League in Britain.

The middle class Anti-Corn Law League founded in 1839, led by Richard Cobden and John Bright, opposed duties on imported grain which raised the price of food to help landowners but harmed manufacturers.

Despite initial disagreements, after their failure their cause was taken up by the middle class Anti-Corn Law League founded by Richard Cobden and John Bright in 1839 to oppose duties on imported grain which raised the price of food and so helped landowners at the expense of ordinary people.

The reformer and Member of Parliament, John Bright ( 1811 – 1889 ), was born in Rochdale and gained a reputation as a leader of political dissent and supporter of the Anti-Corn Law League.

* John Bright ( 1811 – 1889 ), Rochdale mill owner, Anti-Corn Law League leader, President of the Board of Trade, 1868 – 1870, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1873 – 1874, 1880 – 1882

The Anti-Corn Law League was initiated in Manchester during 1838.

* Paul A. Pickering and Alex Tyrrell: The people's bread, a history of the Anti-Corn Law League.

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