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See also: system of See also: land nationalization, was See also: born at See also: Newcastle-on-See also: Tyne on the 21st of See also: June 1750, the son of a Scottish netmaker and shoemaker
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A dispute in connexion with See also: common land rights at Newcastle impelled him to the study of the land question
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His scheme was not for land nationalization proper, but for the establishment of self-contained parochial communities, in which See also: rent paid to the corporation, in which the absolute ownership of the land was vested, should be the only tax of any kind
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His pamphlet, The Meridian See also: Sun of Liberty, which was first hawked in Newcastle, appeared in See also: London in 1793; it was reissued by Mr H
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Hyndman under the title of The Nationalization of the Land in 1795 and 1882
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See also: Spence presently See also: left Newcastle for London, where he kept a bookstall in High See also: Holborn
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In 1784 he spent six months in Newgate See also: gaol for the publication of a pamphlet distasteful to the authorities, and in '8o' he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for seditious See also: libel in connexion with his pamphlet entitled The Restorer of Society to its Natural See also: State
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He died in London on the 8th of See also: September 18'4
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His admirers formed a " Society of Spencean Philanthropists," of which some account is given in Harriet Martineau's See also: England During the See also: Thirty Years' See also: Peace
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See also Davenport, See also: Life, Writings and Principles of See also: Thomas Spence (London, '836)
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