Thomas Potter (mayor)
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Sir Thomas Potter was an English industrialist and Liberal politician, and the first Mayor of Manchester.
Thomas Potter
Absalom Watkin
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Absalom Watkin, was an English social and political reformer, an anti corn law campaigner, and a member of Manchester's Little Circle that was key in passing the Reform Act 1832.
Thomas Potter (mayor)
…later editor of the Manchester Times) called them the "Little Circle"; other members were John Shuttleworth (industrialist and municipal reformer); Absalom Watkin (parliamentary reformer and anti corn law campaigner); and William Cowdroy Jnr (editor of the Manchester Gazette). After group members witnessed the…
Portrait of Absalom Watkin by William Bradley
The Peterloo Massacre of 1819
Rose Hill, Northenden, purchased by Watkin in 1832
Absalom Watkin's grave in the churchyard of St Wilfrid, Northenden in Manchester