Fourth Party
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The Fourth Party was an informal label given to four British MPs, Lord Randolph Churchill, Henry Drummond Wolff, John Gorst and Arthur Balfour, who gained national attention by acting together in the
"The Fourth Party" Churchill, Balfour, Drummond-Wolff and Gorst as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, December 1880
Charles Bradlaugh
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Charles Bradlaugh was an English politician and atheism activist. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866, 15 years after George Holyoake had coined the term "secularism" in 1851.
Fourth Party
…the Liberal government and the Conservative opposition. They were all backbench members of the Conservative Party. The Fourth Party seized upon the Bradlaugh affair, expressing time and again the outrage felt by many Conservatives for Gladstone allowing an avowed atheist to sit in Parliament. They had the support…
Charles Bradlaugh
Bradlaugh by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1887
Bradlaugh's grave in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey
Bradlaugh's statue at Abington Square, Northampton