biography
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| (1777–1855)
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| biography:
| British radical politician, born in Montrose, Angus, E Scotland, UK. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and in 1797 became assistant surgeon under the East India Company. After returning to England (1808), he sat in parliament (1812, 1819–55), where his arguments for reform included the legalizing of trade unions, freedom of trade with India, and the abolition of army flogging, naval impressment, and imprisonment for debt. |
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