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Description: Industrialist owner of an important textile company in Bradford, then built an industrial community called Saltaire with improved working conditions. Active in politics he did not believe that the 1832 Reform Act went far enough. In 1835 he founded the Bradford Reform Association and publicly supported the Chartists. Disturbed by the growth of the Physical Force Chartists, he helped establish the United Reform Society, an attempt to unite middle and working class reformers. (1803-1876)
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