biography
pronunciation:
[bradlaw]
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| lived:
| (1833–91)
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| biography:
| Social reformer and free-thinker, born in London, UK. He became a busy secularist lecturer and pamphleteer under the name of ‘Iconoclast’. In 1880 he was elected MP for Northampton but, as an unbeliever, he refused to take the oath, and was expelled and re-elected regularly until 1886, when he took the oath and his seat. In 1886 he was prosecuted, with Annie Besant, for republishing a pamphlet advocating birth control (The Fruits of Philosophy); the conviction was subsequently quashed on appeal. |
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