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See also:CARTWRIGHT, See also:JOHN (1740–1824) , See also:English See also:parliamentary reformer, was See also:born at Marnham in See also:Nottinghamshire on the 17th of See also:September 1740, being the See also:elder See also:brother of See also:Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the See also:power-See also:loom. He was educated at See also:Newark See also:grammar school and See also:Heath See also:Academy in See also:Yorkshire, and at the See also:age of eighteen entered the See also:navy. He was See also:present, in his first See also:year of service, at the See also:capture of See also:Cherbourg, and served in the following year in the See also:action between See also:Sir See also:Edward See also:Hawke and See also:Admiral Conflans. Engaged afterwards under Sir See also:Hugh Palliser and Admiral See also:Byron on the See also:Newfoundland station, he was appointed to See also:act as See also:chief See also:magistrate of the See also:settlement; and the duties of this See also:post he discharged for five years (1765-1770).
See also:Ill-See also:health necessitated his retirement from active service for a 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 in 1771. When the disputes with the See also:American colonies began, he saw clearly that the colonists had right on their See also:side, and warmly supported their cause. At the beginning of the See also:war he was offered the See also:appointment of first See also:lieutenant to the See also:duke of See also:Cumberland, which would have put him on the path of certain promotion. But he declined to fight against the cause which he See also:felt to be just. In 1774 he published his first plea on behalf of the colonists, entitled American See also:Independence the See also:Glory and See also:Interest of See also:Great See also:Britain. In the following year, when the Nottinghamshire See also:Militia was first raised, he was appointed See also:major, and in this capacity he served for seventeen years. He was at last illegally superseded, because of his See also:political opinions. In 1776 appeared his first See also:work on reform in See also:parliament, which, with the exception of See also:Earl See also:Stanhope's See also:pamphlets (1774), appears to have been the earliest publication on the subject. It was entitled, Take your Choice—a second edition appearing under the new See also:title of The Legislative Rights of the Commonalty vindicated. The task of his See also:life was thenceforth chiefly the attainment of universal See also:suffrage and See also:annual parliaments. In 1778 he conceived the project of a political association, which took shape in 178o as the " Society for Constitutional See also:Information," including among its members some of the most distinguished men of the See also:day. From this society sprang the more famous " Corresponding Society." Major Cartwright worked unweariedly for the See also:pro-See also:motion of reform. He was one of the witnesses on the trial of his See also:friends, See also:Horne See also:Tooke, John Theiwall and 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 See also:Hardy, in 1794, and was himself indicted for See also:conspiracy in 1819. He was found guilty in the following year, and was condemned to pay a See also:fine of boo. He died in See also:London on the 23rd of September 1824. He had married in 1780, but had no See also:children. In 1831 a See also:monument from a See also:design by See also:Macdowell was erected to him in See also:Burton See also:Crescent where he had lived.
The Life and See also:Correspondence of Major Cartwright, edited by his niece F. D. Cartwright, was published in 1826.
End of Article: CARTWRIGHT, JOHN (1740–1824)
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