biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1804–65)
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| biography:
| Economist and politican, ‘the apostle of free trade’, born in Heyshott, West Sussex, S England, UK. He worked as a clerk and commercial traveller in London, then went into the calico business, settling in Manchester. In 1835 he visited the USA, and the Levant (1836–7), after which he published two pamphlets preaching free trade, nonintervention, and speaking against ‘Russophobia’. In 1838 he helped to found the Anti-Corn-Law League, becoming its most prominent member. He became an MP in 1841. His lectures and parliamentary speeches focused opinion on the Corn Laws, which were repealed in 1846. |
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