Thomas Perronet Thompson

Thomas Perronet Thompson, portrait by George Hayter

Thomas Perronet Thompson (15 March 1783 – 6 September 1869)[1] was a British Parliamentarian, a governor of Sierra Leone and a radical reformer. He became prominent in 1830s and 1840s as a leading activist in the Anti-Corn Law League. He specialized in the grass-roots mobilisation of opinion through pamphlets, newspaper articles, correspondence, speeches, and endless local planning meetings.[2]

  1. ^ "Thompson, Thomas Perronet (THM798TP)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Michael J. Turner, "The 'Bonaparte of free trade' and the Anti-Corn Law League." Historical Journal 41.4 (1998): 1011-1034.