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424:. He prosecuted Walker for conspiracy to overthrow the constitution. The case began with evidence gathered by the Rev. John Griffith, a Manchester magistrate. A chaplain of the Manchester Collegiate Church, who became a fellow there in November 1793, he was later criticised for his role in Walker's prosecution. Summer of 1793 saw rumours circulate in Manchester about Walker: words he had used against the king, armed men he was training. Griffith found an informer, Thomas Dunn, and investigated what evidence could be collected against Walker. On the basis of Dunn's testimony, Griffith issued an arrest warrant for Walker, on a treason charge. 22: 2232: 362:'s account of these events regards the formation of a "Church and King Club" in Manchester as a result of the rejection in 1790 of nonconformist pressure to relax religious tests. The Manchester Constitutional Club was a reaction to it: and besides Cooper and Walker, the members were James Darbishire, Thomas Kershaw, George Lloyd and 270:. The borough-reeve was the leading citizen of the town, and was elected with two Constables. The typical borough-reeve was a Tory merchant or textile manufacturer. The major power attached to the office was the calling of public meetings. Through deputy and special constables, the court leet also oversaw peacekeeping. 1854:
A Review of Some of the Political Events which Have Occurred in Manchester, During the Last Five Years: Being a Sequel to the Trial of Thomas Walker, and Others, for a Conspiracy to Overthrow the Constitution and Government of this Country, and to Aid and Assist the French, Being the King's Enemies.
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The jury heard testimony about the attack on Walker's warehouse, and his subsequent collecting of arms, which were later fired over the head of a crowd. Dunn on re-examination was found to be drunk, and his evidence on armed men was directly contradicted. Law gave up the case against Walker, and the
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Walker's warehouse was attacked in December 1792 by a "Church and King" mob: he managed to drive them off. On Walker's published account, the violence that began on 10 December 1792 lasted for three nights, and occurred in four locations, with the constables not intervening. It affected his house,
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Walker was preceded in the annual post by Edward Place, and followed by Nathan Crompton. Place had called a public meeting on 3 February 1790, at which resolutions had been passed including one stating that Dissenter agitation should be viewed with "alarm". Nathan Crompton was a "Church and King"
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Walker withdrew from political activity after the trial, but in 1795 was a signatory to a petition criticising government measures, with other members of the anti-slavery committee including Samuel Greg, Lloyd and Percival. After a dormant period, the reform societies became more active again in
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In September 1792 a large group of Manchester public house keepers banned meetings of the local reform societies; Walker reacted by holding the Constitutional Society and Manchester Reform Society meetings in his town house. The Manchester Constitutional Society was one of the parties to a joint
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tax. With Thomas Richardson, he testified to the Board of Trade committee in London in January 1785. After some confusion during the spring, the House of Commons voted to repeal the tax in April, and the Manchester men returned north as heroes. The same year he founded the General Chamber of
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The whole proceedings on the trial of an indictment against Thomas Walker of Manchester [...] Tried at the assizes at Lancaster, April 2, 1794, before the Hon. Mr. Justice Heath, one of the judges of His Majesty's Court of common
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was set up on 27 December 1787. Walker was the chairman, Samuel Jackson the secretary, and there were 29 other founder members. Over the next four years members, including Walker, then joined other committees, including that of the
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There was also opposition, with Lawrence Peel taking a significant part in organising an anti-abolition petition. The Infirmary experienced a sharp dispute in the years 1788 to 1790, with reformers including Ferriar and
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was under the impression that both Cooper and Walker would leave for America; in the event, Cooper went but Walker stayed in Manchester. Birch and Falkner left for America in spring of 1793, and the last issue of the
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Walker was also, with Thomas Cooper, dominant in Manchester radical politics. In 1790, while he was borough-reeve, Walker founded the Manchester Constitutional Society. He belonged to the
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In personal terms, Walker's radicalism cost him dear. The cotton and fustian business he ran failed. (The economic context was a pause in Manchester's growth, in the early years of the
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Partly by choice, Manchester in the 18th century, which by 1790 had a population of 75,000, lacked municipal structures beyond the legacy of the Middle Ages. It was not a
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In 1794 Walker was prosecuted for treasonable conspiracy; but the evidence was found to be perjured, and the charge was abandoned. At the trial he was defended by
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308: 219:. The committee, however, had by then shed some Tory members, including the prominent Loyalist Nathan Crompton, and others remained as nominal supporters only. 160: 211:. By 1792, 15 of the committee members had joined the Literary and Philosophical Society; they included Walker and Ferriar, George Lloyd the barrister, 435:. Lesser figures in the reform societies were also proceeded against. The treason charge against Walker was dropped; but he was brought to trial on a 132: 2282: 300:. It appeared from 31 March 1792, printed by Matthew Falkner and Samuel Birch, both Constitutional Society Members. Falkner had a printing house. 386:
office being broken up. It also was directed at William Gorse, of the Manchester Reformation Society, in Great Newton Street (in what is now the
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views, he supported the campaign against the religious disabilities of dissenters, and was a founder member of the Unitarian Society set up by
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in Stretford (near Manchester), which became the family home. He died at Longford on 2 February 1817. He was buried at St Clement's church,
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At that point, Walker was in London: he asked his brother Richard and solicitor to make enquiries of Griffith, while he himself contacted
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was asked to send a message of support to Joseph Priestley, who had had to flee Birmingham, as had been done by the
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Walker was well connected, through business, religious, political and family networks. Himself an Anglican of
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In October 1790 Walker was elected borough-reeve of Manchester. The electoral body was the jury of the
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A Review of Some of the Political Events which Have Occurred in Manchester, During the Last Five Years
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The context given by Prentice is not sufficient to identify Lloyd definitely with the barrister.
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which was on South Parade; that of Joseph Collier; and that of Matthew Falkner, with the
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spoke, and the unpopular Walker clashed physically with his brother Laurence.
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Manufactures, set up to lobby against Pitt's measures on trade with Ireland.
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1796, and by 1797 Walker had again emerged as a local leader in Manchester.
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the physician, Joseph Collier the surgeon, Samuel Jackson the merchant, and
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run by Joseph Harrop, was abolitionist, and wrote positively about the
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Walker married Hannah, daughter of Samuel Shore, and brother of
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in 1793 was made king's sergeant and attorney-general for the
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arguing for expansion, while conservative surgeons including
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jury acquitted him; Dunn was later convicted of perjury.
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In 1784 Walker led the successful local opposition to
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Bristol
Manchester
James Burgh
St Mary's Church, Manchester
Barlow Hall
William Egerton
William Pitt
fustian
Eden Treaty
East India Company
Robert Peel
latitudinarian
Theophilus Lindsey
John Jebb
Lord North
Yorkshire Association
Charles James Fox
Lord Derby
John Horne Tooke
Thomas Paine
Joseph Priestley
James Watt
Matthew Boulton
Josiah Wedgwood
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
John Ferriar
Thomas Cooper
slave trade
Manchester Infirmary

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