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THOMAS SPENCE (1750-1814)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 634 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:SPENCE (1750-1814)  , inventor of a 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 . A dispute in connexion with See also:common land rights at Newcastle impelled him to the study of the land question . His See also:scheme was not for land nationalization proper, but for the See also:establishment of self-contained parochial communities, in which See also:rent paid to the See also:corporation, in which the See also:absolute ownership of the land was vested, should be the only tax of any See also:kind . His pamphlet, The See also:Meridian See also:Sun of See also:Liberty, which was first hawked in Newcastle, appeared in See also:London in 1793; it was reissued by Mr H . M . Hyndman under the See also:title of The Nationalization of the Land in 1795 and 1882 . See also:Spence presently See also:left Newcastle for London, where he kept a bookstall in High See also:Holborn . 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 . He died in London on the 8th of See also:September 18'4 . His admirers formed a " Society of Spencean Philanthropists," of which some See also:account is given in Harriet See also:Martineau's See also:England During the See also:Thirty Years' See also:Peace . See also See also:Davenport, See also:Life, Writings and Principles of See also:Thomas Spence (London, '836) .

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