Thomas Spence

Thomas Spence
Base of the Reformers Memorial, Kensal Green Cemetery, showing Spence's name

Thomas Spence (2 July [O.S. 21 June] 1750 – 8 September 1814) was an English Radical[1] and advocate of the common ownership of land and a democratic equality of the sexes. Spence was one of the leading revolutionaries of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was born in poverty and died the same way, after long periods of imprisonment, in 1814.

  1. ^ Thomas Spence Archived 2011-08-05 at the Wayback Machine, Spartacus-Educational.com, accessed 27 February 2019