Feargus O'Connor
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Feargus Edward O'Connor was an Irish Chartist leader, MP and advocate of the Land Plan, which sought to provide smallholdings for the labouring classes. A highly charismatic figure, O'Connor was admir
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Photograph of the Great Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, organised by O'Connor
Feargus O'Connor commemorated at Heronsgate
O'Connor's grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, photographed in 2014
National Land Company
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The National Land Company was founded as the Chartist Co-operative Land Company in 1845 by the chartist Feargus O'Connor to help working-class people satisfy the landholding requirement to gain a vote
Feargus O'Connor
…Feargus Edward O'Connor (18 July 1796 – 30 August 1855) was an Irish Chartist leader, MP and advocate of the Land Plan, which sought to provide smallholdings for the labouring classes. A highly charismatic figure, O'Connor was admired for his energy and oratory, but was…
Former Chartist cottage and plot in Charterville Allotments, Oxfordshire