Thomas Hardy (political reformer)
Thomas Hardy | |
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| Born | 3 March 1752 Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
| Died | 11 October 1832 (aged 80) London, England |
| Resting place | Bunhill Fields, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Master Shoemaker |
| Known for | Founding the London Corresponding Society. |
Thomas Hardy (3 March 1752 – 11 October 1832) was a British shoemaker who was an early
Radical, and the founder, first Secretary, and Treasurer of the London Corresponding Society
.
Early life
Thomas Hardy was born on 3 March 1752 in
loyalist "Church and King" mob attacked the Hardy home some weeks earlier.[2] In 1791, Hardy opened his own boot and shoe shop at 9 Piccadilly, London.[1]
Involvement with the London Corresponding Society
Portrait of Hardy at the National Liberal Club
Around 1792, Hardy founded the
Guy Fawkes Day, 1794.[1]
Hardy's monument in Bunhill Fields
burial groundDeath and legacy
In later life Hardy ceased involvement in politics, and with the assistance of friends set up a small shoe shop in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.[1] In September 1797 he moved to a smaller establishment in Fleet Street.[1] He died on 11 October 1832 at his home in Queen's Row, Pimlico, London.[1] He was buried at Bunhill Fields burial ground, where a granite obelisk, designed by John Woody Papworth, was later erected in his memory.[5]
See also
- Garrow's Law, BBC dramatisation based on Hardy's trial (episode 4, series 1)
References
- ^ required.)
- ^ Uglow, Jenny (2014). In These Times: living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
- ^ Thompson, E. P. (1963). The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Vintage Books. p. 20.
- ^ Brown, P.A. (1965). The French Revolution in English History. Frank Cass & Co. Ltd. p. 123.
- ^ Historic England. "Monument to Thomas Hardy, East Enclosure (1396521)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
Sources
- Thompson, E.P. (1963). The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Vintage Books.
- Hardy, Thomas (1832). Memoir of T. H., founder of ... the London Corresponding Society, for diffusing ... political knowledge among the people of Great Britain and Ireland, etc. Written by Himself. London.
- Angus, Ian (4 November 2009). "The Trial of Thomas Hardy: A Forgotten Chapter in the Working Class Fight for Democratic Rights". Socialist Voice: Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- Barker, George Fisher Russell (1890). . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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