1st Edition

General T. Perronet Thompson, 1783–1869 His Military, Literary and Political Campaigns

By L.G. Johnson Copyright 1957
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

General T. Perronet Thompson (1957) examines the life of this British Parliamentarian and radical reformer. Active as an agitator against slavery, he was also a military officer and radical reformer who supported universal suffrage, and an activist against the Corn Laws.

1. Upbringing  2. Protégé of the Saints  3. Governor of Sierra Leone  4. Awaiting the Verdict  5. ‘A Man of Very Small Baggage’ in Spain  6. India and the Persian Gulf  7. 1821–24  8. First Catechism  9. ‘The Westminster Review’  10. ‘The Instruments of Words’  11. The Case of ‘The Man with Forty Crowns a Year’  12. In Parliament  13. Out – and About  14. ‘Thompson’s Scholars’  15. Member for Bradford  16. Qualis ab Incepto

Biography

L.G. Johnson