Maurice Margarot
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Maurice Margarot is most notable for being one of the founding members of the London Corresponding Society, a radical society demanding parliamentary reform in the late eighteenth century.
Burdett Coutts Memorial Sundial.
Political Martyrs' Monument
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The Political Martyrs Monument, located in the Old Calton Burial Ground on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, commemorates five political reformists from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Designed by Thoma
Maurice Margarot
…speech described by the judge, Lord Braxfield, as itself being "sedition". He was found guilty, and along with four other radicals (later known as the "Scottish Martyrs to Liberty") was transported to New South Wales in May 1794 in the convict ship Surprize. Margarot was joined by his wife, but almost immediately a controversial…
The Monument
Inscriptions at the base of the monument
The Monument on Calton Hill, next to the Governor's House
The monument in Nunhead Cemetery, London