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    John Fielden (17 January 1784 – 29 May 1849) was a British industrialist and Radical Member of Parliament for Oldham (1832–1847). He entered Parliament...
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  • Fielden is an English surname. Notable people with it include: Charlotte Fielden (1932–2021), Canadian novelist, playwright, actress and therapist Edward...
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    MP in the session when the Act was passed), John Doherty and sympathetic mill-owners such as John Fielden. The fiercest opponents of all ten-hour bills...
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    play as "a tragedy without villains" and also as Shaw's "only tragedy". John Fielden has discussed further the appropriateness of characterising Saint Joan...
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    West Yorkshire, England. It was built for John Fielden, local mill owner and son of Honest John Fielden the Social Reformer and MP. The building has...
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    John Fielden Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough CB, CVO (13 May 1852 – 28 February 1921), was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal politician. Brocklehurst...
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  • business Fielden Brothers of Todmorden, Yorkshire, father of John Fielden Joshua Fielden (politician) (1826–1887), grandson of the above and MP for the...
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  • Honest John may refer to: John Battersby, councillor in Glasgow and trade union leader John Bowen (alderman), High Sheriff of Worcestershire John Fielden, British...
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    met while stationed at Fort Howe in Saint John. Their children were Anne (1795–1877), William (1798–1878), John (1800–1877), James Paul (1803–1881), Eleanor...
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    England, some 1.7 miles (3 km) south of Tadcaster. Since being owned by the Fielden family, it has been converted into a number of luxury homes. The house...
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    Samuel "Sam" Fielden (February 25, 1847 – February 7, 1922) was an English-born American Methodist pastor, socialist, anarchist and labor activist who...
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  • British stockbroker and the heir to Sudeley Castle. He was the son of Major John Henry Dent-Brocklehurst and his wife, Mary (née Morrison). Via his paternal...
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    science master, Luke Sutcliffe. John Fielden (1784–1849), land and factory owner in Todmorden and scion of the town's Fielden family, was a Member of Parliament...
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    various stalwarts of the Ten-Hour Movement ( various Cobbetts and Fieldens (John Fielden now being dead) and Richard Oastler) offering their support and...
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    Ten Hours campaign such as Richard Oastler, Joseph Rayner Stephens and John Fielden became the leaders of the Anti-Poor Law campaign. The Book of Murder...
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  • for Castle Rising, England John Fiedler, American actor John Feilder, English MP John Fielden, British industrialist and MP This disambiguation page lists...
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    née Reid. In 1851, he married Mary Fielden, the daughter of John Fielden, his father's fellow-member for Oldham. John Morgan Cobbett's political affiliations...
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    John Kay (17 June 1704 – c. 1779) was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial...
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  • John Duncuft (died 27 July 1852) was a British Peelite politician. Duncuft was first elected Peelite MP for Oldham in 1847, and held the seat at the next...
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    including many Quakers, workers, and even some factory owners like John Fielden also supported it. Many committees were formed in support of the cause...
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  • unsuccessfully on an all-Radical 'plague on both your houses' slate with John Fielden in 1847. He was elected in 1852 as the Radical half of an explicit Radical-Tory...
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  • son of the Radical politician John Fielden of Todmorden, and his first wife, Anne Grindrod of Rochdale. In 1869, Fielden's uncle Thomas died; his will (proved...
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    West Yorkshire, England (grid reference SD935239). Built in honour of John Fielden, a local mill owner and a social reformer, the church was completed in...
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    two-member constituency and Cobbett's colleague John Fielden strongly advocated that Cobbett's son John Morgan Cobbett should be the Radical candidate...
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  • 1936) was similarly described as "fresh and vigorous". John Wilson Foster describes Fielden's fictional world as one in which "violence, degeneration...
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    first Members of Parliaments (MPs) were the radicals William Cobbett and John Fielden. Winston Churchill was the MP between 1900 and 1906. Constituency boundaries...
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    parliamentary representatives were the radicals William Cobbett and John Fielden. Winston Churchill began his political career in Oldham. Although unsuccessful...
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  • House of Commons or the House of Lords before gaining Royal Assent. John Fielden, an industrialist and owner of textile mills at Todmorden and MP for...
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  • Butler MSP. Spouse of Patricia. John Fielden (1784–1849), Liberal MP for Oldham 1832–47 Joshua Fielden (1827–87, son of John), Conservative MP for Eastern...
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    was forced back by the high waves. Another of Whitby's lifeboats the John Fielden (ON 379) was dragged across the rocky scar to a point adjacent to the...
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