William Cobbett
English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist (1763-1835) · United Kingdom · Journalists · Died at 72
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Something wrong?William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign activity, and raise wages, with the goal of easing poverty among farm labourers and small land holders.
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Cartoon of Cobbett enlisting in the army. From the Political Register of 1809. Artist James Gillray.
The 'Hampshire hog in the pound'
Rural rides in the southern, western and eastern counties of England, 1930.
The introduction of horse-powered threshing machines to farms was one of the principal causes of the Swing Riots in 1830.
William Cobbett (left foreground), John Gully (middle) and Joseph Pease (right) (the first Quaker elected to Parliament) arriving at Westminster, during March 1833. Sketch by John Doyle.
The tomb of William Cobbett in the churchyard of St Andrew's church in Farnham.In their orbit
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William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign activity, and raise wages, with the goal of easing poverty among farm labourers and small land holders. Cobbett backed lower taxes, saving, reversing commons enclosures and returning to the gold standard. He opposed borough-mongers, sinecurists, bureaucratic "tax-eaters" and stockbrokers. His radicalism furthered the Reform Act 1832 and gained him one of two newly created seats in Parliament for the borough of Oldham. His polemics range from political reform to religion, including Catholic emancipation. His best known book is Rural Rides. He argued against Malthusianism, saying economic betterment could support global population growth.
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