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Thomas Perronet Thompson.
British parliamentarian, Governor of Sierra Leone and radical reformer (1783–1869)
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About Thomas Perronet Thompson
Thomas Perronet Thompson was a British Army officer, parliamentarian, governor of Sierra Leone and radical reformer. He became prominent in 1830s and 1840s as a leading activist in the Anti-Corn Law League. He specialized in the grass-roots mobilisation of opinion through pamphlets, newspaper articles, correspondence, speeches, and local planning meetings.
Everything about Thomas Perronet Thompson →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the 17th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 15th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 12th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- March 15, 1783
- Died
- September 6, 1869