Richard Oastler
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| Date of birth | December 20,1789 |
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| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | Leeds |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | August 22,1861 |
| Died | Harrogate |
| United Kingdom | |
| Children | 2 (died by 1819) |
| Known for | Factory Acts |
| Burial place | Kirkstall |
| Leeds | |
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| ID | 710921 |
About Richard Oastler
Richard Oastler "the Factory King" was a "Tory radical", an active opponent of Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform and a lifelong admirer of the Duke of Wellington; but also an abolitionist and prominent in the "anti-Poor Law" resistance to the implementation of the "New Poor Law" of 1834.
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