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Thomas Perronet Thompson

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British parliamentarian, Governor of Sierra Leone and radical reformer (1783-1869)

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Thomas Perronet Thompson was a British Army officer, parliamentarian, governor of Sierra Leone and radical reformer. He became prominent in 1830s and 1840s as a leading activist in the Anti-Corn Law League.

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Thomas Perronet Thompson was a British Army officer, parliamentarian, governor of Sierra Leone and radical reformer. He became prominent in 1830s and 1840s as a leading activist in the Anti-Corn Law League. He specialized in the grass-roots mobilisation of opinion through pamphlets, newspaper articles, correspondence, speeches, and local planning meetings.

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Lived 1783 to 1869 · aged 86
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