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BAMFORD, SAMUEL (1788-1872)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 304 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAMFORD, See also:SAMUEL (1788-1872) , See also:English labour politician, was See also:born at Miston, near See also:Middleton, See also:Lancashire, on the 28th of See also:February 1788. Himself a stalwart See also:weaver, he was opposed to See also:physical force movements and did all he could to restrain the violent resistance to See also:trade oppression which was so See also:common; yet through attending and speaking at the See also:meeting (1819) at Peterloo, See also:Manchester (q.v.), which was intended to be a peaceful gathering to See also:petition for See also:Parliamentary reform and a See also:repeal of the See also:Corn See also:Law but ended in a See also:massacre, he was arrested for a See also:breach of the law, convicted and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. He was the author of several widely popular poems (principally in the Lancashire See also:dialect) showing sympathy with the conditions of his class, and his Passages in the See also:Life of a See also:Radical (1840--1844) is an authoritative See also:history of the See also:condition of the working classes in the years succeeding the See also:battle of See also:Waterloo. He died at Harpurhey on the 13th of See also:April 1872, and was accorded a public funeral, attended by thousands.

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