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catechism boldly styled his " betters " made him an " agitator." Having educated himself by unremitting exertions, and acquired fluency of speech as a Methodist See also:

LOCAL

local preacher, he founded in 1872 the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, of which he was See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president. A rise then came in the See also:

WAGES (the plural of " wage," from Late Lat. wadium, a pledge, O. Fr. wagier, gagier)

wages of agricultural labourers, but this had the unforeseen effect of destroying the union; for the labourers, deeming their See also:

OBJECT

object gained, ceased to agitate." Mr Arch nevertheless retained sufficient popularity to be re-turned to See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament for See also:

north-See also:

west See also:

Norfolk in 1885; and although defeated next See also:

YEAR

year owing to his advocacy of Irish See also:

Home See also:

RULE

Rule, he regained his seat in 1892, and held it in 1895, retiring in 1900. He was deservedly respected in the See also:

House of See also:

COMMONS

Commons; seldom has an agitator been so little of a See also:

DEMAGOGUE (Gr. Srlµaywybs, from iyety, to lead, and Siµos, the people)

demagogue. A See also:

BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography written by himself or under his direction, and edited by See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady See also:

Warwick (1898), tells the See also:

story of his career.

End of Article: ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

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