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See also:JOSEPH See also:ARCH (1826– ) , See also:English politician, founder of the See also:National Agricultural Labourers' See also:Union, was See also:born at Barford,a See also:village in See also:Warwickshire, on the See also:roth of See also:November 1826 . His parents belonged to the labouring class . He inherited a strong sentiment of See also:independence from his See also:mother; and his objections to the social See also:homage expected by those whom the See also:catechism boldly styled his " betters " made him an " agitator." Having educated himself by unremitting exertions, and acquired fluency of speech as a Methodist See also:local preacher, he founded in 1872 the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, of which he was See also:president . A rise then came in the See also:wages of agricultural labourers, but this had the unforeseen effect of destroying the union; for the labourers, deeming their See also:object gained, ceased to agitate." Mr See also:Arch nevertheless retained sufficient popularity to be re-turned to See also:parliament for See also:north-See also:west See also:Norfolk in 1885; and although defeated next See also:year owing to his advocacy of Irish See also:Home See also:Rule, he regained his seat in 1892, and held it in 1895, retiring in 1900 . He was deservedly respected in the See also:House of See also:Commons; seldom has an agitator been so little of a See also:demagogue . A See also:biography written by himself or under his direction, and edited by See also:Lady See also:Warwick (1898), tells the See also:story of his career . |
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