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See also:GEORGE See also:JACOB See also:HOLYOAKE (1817-2906) , See also:English secularist and co-operator, was See also:born at See also:Birmingham, on the 13th of See also:April 1817 . At an See also:early See also:age he became an Owenite lecturer, and in 1841 was the last See also:person convicted for See also:blasphemy in a public lecture, though this had no theological See also:character and the incriminating words were merely a reply to a question addressed to him from the See also:body of the See also:meeting . He nevertheless under-went six months' imprisonment, and upon his See also:release invented the inoffensive See also:term " See also:secularism " as descriptive of his opinions, and established the Reasoner in their support . He was also the last person indicted for See also:publishing an unstamped newspaper, but the See also:prosecution dropped upon the See also:repeal of the tax . His later years were chiefly devoted to the promotion of the co-operative See also:movement among the working classes . He wrote the See also:history of the See also:Rochdale Pioneers (1857), The History of Co-operation in See also:England (1875; revised ed., 1906), and The Co-operative Movement of To-See also:day (1891) . He also published (1892) his autobiography, under the See also:title of Sixty Years of an Agitator's See also:Life, and in 1905 two volumes of reminiscences, Bygones See also:worth Remembering . He died at See also:Brighton on the 22nd of See also:January 1906 . See J . McCabe, Life and Letters of G . J . See also:Holyoake (2 vols., 1908) ; C . W . F . See also:Goss, Descriptive Bibliography of the Writings of G . J . Holyoake (1908) . |
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