The National Political Union was formed in October 1831 to co-ordinate agitation for parliamentary reform, in particular wider male suffrage.  Some members of its Council were dissatisfied with how it was being run and so set up their own Radical Club. has the rules and list of 78 members in 1838 including Samuel Baylis.  This Radical Club is said to be a precursor to the Liberal Party.
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Radical Club
Samuel Baylis lived on Whitecross Street and was a founder of the Radical Clu...
Businessman and politician. Born South Lambeth, nephew of Henry Beaufoy. Aged 10 he inherited the business. 1881 chaired the meeting at which the Children's Society was founded. 1884 married Mildre...
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall.
Created on 11 April 1992.  By 2013 it had become part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which sponsors English Heritage.
In the mid 1970s, New Cross and surrounding areas became the focus of racist activity by neo-Nazis and the National Front (NF). This culminated in an attempted march by 500 members of the NF. Vario...
Honorary Treasurer of the Kenwood Preservation Council. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Henry Edmund Goodison was born on 31 October 1866 in the St Pancras district of L...
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