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See also:ATTWOOD, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1783-1856) , See also:English See also:political re-former, was See also:born at See also:Halesowen, See also:Worcestershire, on the 6th of See also:October 1783. In 1800 he entered his See also:father's banking business in See also:Birmingham, where he 'was elected high See also:bailiff in 1811. He took a leading See also:part in the public See also:life of the See also:city, and became very popular with the See also:artisan class. He is now remembered for his See also:share in the See also:movement which led to the carrying of the Reform See also:Act of 1832. He was one of the founders, in See also:January 183o, of the Political See also:Union, branches of which were soon formed through-out See also:England. Under his leadership vast crowds of working-men met periodically in the neighbourhood of Birmingham to demonstrate in favour of reform of the See also:franchise, and Attwood used his See also:power over the multitude to repress any See also:action on their part which might savour of illegality. His successful exertions in favour of reform made him a popular See also:hero all over the See also:country, and he was presented with the freedom of the city of See also:London. After the passing of the Reform Act in 1832 he was elected one of the members for the new See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Birmingham, for which he sat till 1839. He failed in the See also:House of See also:Commons to maintain the reputation which he had made outside it, for in addition to an eager partisanship in favour of every ultra-democratic movement, he was wearisomely persistent in advocating his See also:peculiar monetary theory. This theory, which became with him a monomania, was that the existing currency should be rectified in favour of See also:state-regulated and inconvertible See also:paper-See also:money, and the See also:adoption of a See also:system for altering the See also:standard of value as prices fluctuated. His waning See also:influence with his constituents led him to retire from See also:parliament in 1837, and, though invited to re-enter political life in 1843, he had by that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time become a thoroughly spent force. He died at See also:Great See also:Malvern on the 6th of See also:March 1856.
His See also:grandson, C. M. See also:Wakefield, wrote his life " for private circulation " (there is a copy in the See also:British Museum), and his economic theories are set forth in a little See also:book, See also:Gemini, by T. B. See also:Wright and J. Harlow, published in 1844.
End of Article: ATTWOOD, THOMAS (1783-1856)
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