6 Dorset farm labourers, transported to Australia for joining a trade union. Following mass protests against their treatment the government was forced to give pardons and eventually after 2 years, all returned home. Five of them continued their campaign and supported the Chartists.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Tolpuddle Martyrs
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Tolpuddle Martyrs at Copenhagen Fields
Copenhagen Fields From this site on 21st April 1834 thousands marched in sup...
Tolpuddle Martyrs mural
A modern information board informs that the mural was painted by Dave Bangs i...
Other Subjects
Admiral Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
Naval officer and administrator. Born, son of Thomas Howard and Margaret Dudley, the heir of Thomas Audley, Baron Audley of Walden. Proved himself at sea, mainly fighting the Spanish, and then an...
W. Moreton Phillips
Co-churchwarden of St Marks, Dalston in 1898. Probably the same W. Moreton Phillips who was a prosecuting solicitor on behalf of the NSPCC, 1897 - 1906 (from the British Newspaper Archive).
John Gott
One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851.
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
English statesman. Appointed Lord High Admiral in 1619. Favourite of King James I of England (possibly more) and then of Charles I but so unpopular with others that he was murdered, leaving behind ...