Chartists - Allan Pinkerton, John Frost, Samuel Smiles, Feargus O'Connor, John Bedford Leno, William Price, Patrick Matthew, Henry Hetherington (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Allan Pinkerton, John Frost, Samuel Smiles, Feargus O'Connor, John Bedford Leno, William Price, Patrick Matthew, Henry Hetherington, Ebenezer Elliott, Graham Berry, Joseph Sturge, Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, George W. M. Reynolds, Richard Spurr, Henry Vincent, Abel Heywood, George Julian Harney, Robert George Gammage, Francis Place, William Lovett, Zephaniah Williams, James Bronterre O'Brien, William James Linton, George Howell, Gerald Massey, Isaac Ironside, Eliza Cook, Anne Knight, Thomas Frost, Thomas Hepburn, Ernest Charles Jones, William Cuffay, John Goodwyn Barmby, John Basson Humffray, John Cleave, James Stephens, Samuel Holberry, Henry Solly, David Blair, W. E. Adams, Joshua Hobson, Georg Weerth, Collet Dobson Collet, William Jones, Alfred Walton, John Gast, Thomas Cooper, Robert Meek Carter. Excerpt: Feargus Edward O'Connor (1794 - 30 August 1855) was an Irish Chartist leader and advocate of the Land Plan. Feargus O'Connor was born into a prominent Irish Protestant family, the son of Irish Nationalist politician Roger O'Connor (1762-1834). They claimed to be the descendants of the late Independent King of Ireland or perhaps King of Connaught, Roderick O'Connor, Rory O'Connor, Ruaidri Ua Conchobair, (1116 - succeeds to his father Turlogh O'Connor, Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, Turlough Mor O'Connor, the High King of Ireland, in 1156 - deposed 1186 - Cong Abbey, 1198). He was also the nephew of Arthur O'Connor (1763- General with Napoleon, 1804 - Permanently exiled 1807 - 1852), Member of the Irish Parliament between 1791 and 1795, (abolished by the British Government in 1798), the agent in France for Robert Emmet's rebellion; both of whom were famous for belonging to the United Irishmen. His elder brother Francis, (June 1791 - October 1870) became a general in Simon Bolivar's army of liberation in South America. ...