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JOSEPH STURGE (1793-1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1052 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:STURGE (1793-1859)  , See also:English philanthropist and politician, was the son of a See also:farmer in See also:Gloucestershire . He was a member of the Society of See also:Friends, and refused, in his business as a See also:corn See also:factor, to See also:deal in See also:grain used in the manufacture of See also:spirits . He went to See also:Birmingham in 1822, where he became an See also:alderman in 1835 . He was an active member of the See also:Anti-See also:Slavery Society, and made a tour in the See also:West Indies, See also:publishing on his return an See also:account of slavery as he there saw it in The West Indies in 1837 (See also:London, 1837) . After the abolition of slavery, to which, as See also:Lord See also:Brougham acknowledged in the See also:House of Lords, he had largely contributed, See also:Sturge started and generously supported schemes for benefiting the liberated negroes . In 1841 he travelled in the See also:United States with the poet See also:Whittier to examine the slavery question there . On his return to See also:England he gave his support to the Chartist See also:movement, and in 1842 wascandidate for See also:Nottingham, but was defeated by See also:John See also:Walter, the proprietor of The Times . He then took up the cause of See also:peace and See also:arbitration, to support which he was influential in the See also:founding of the See also:Morning See also:Star in 1855 . The extreme narrowness of Sturge's views was shown in his opposition to the See also:building of the Birmingham See also:town-See also:hall on account of his conscientious objection to the performance of sacred See also:oratorio . He died at Birmingham on the 14th of May 1859 . He married, first, in 1834, Eliza, daughter' of See also:James Cropper; and, secondly, in 1846, Hannah, daughter of See also:Barnard See also:Dickinson . See See also:Henry See also:Richard, See also:Memoirs of See also:Joseph Sturge (London, 1864) ; John (See also:Viscount) See also:Morley, See also:Life of Richard See also:Cobden (London, 1881) .

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