William Prowting Roberts
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W. P. Roberts was a noted Chartist who became known as the "attorney-general" of the coal miners in the 1840s.
The Miners' Monthly Magazine
Richard Marsden Pankhurst was an English barrister and socialist who was a strong supporter of women's rights. He was married to suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst née Goulden.
William Prowting Roberts
…Roberts moved to Manchester in the summer of 1845 and became legal adviser to the Lancashire Miners' Association. He became friends and neighbours with Richard Marsden Pankhurst and later Annie Besant. He also notably fought cases involving trade unionists including the case involving engineers from Newton-le-Willows indicted…
Pankhurst in 1879
Emmeline Pankhurst, seated