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Henry Hetherington (June 1792 – 24 August 1849) was an English printer, bookseller, publisher and newspaper proprietor who campaigned for social justice, a free press, universal suffrage and religious freethought.
Henry Hetherington was a writer, printer, publisher, and bookseller, who tirelessly championed freedom of the press, freedom of thought, and the rights of the working class. He played a leading role in Chartist and Owenite organisations, as well as in the ‘war of the unstamped’, which fought to make radical ideas accessible to everyone ...
Henry Hetherington. Henry Hetherington, the son of a London tailor, was born in June 1792. When he was thirteen he began work as an apprentice printer at Luke Hansard's printing works. In the 1820s Hetherington became influenced by the ideas of Robert Owen and joined the co-operative printers association.
Henry Hetherington, a printer and publisher of unstamped newspapers, born in Compton Street, Soho, London, in 1792. He was apprenticed to Luke Hansard the parliamentary printer. He afterwards went to Belgium, but soon returned to London.
Between 1824 and 1830 English printer, bookseller, publisher, newspaper proprietor, and campaigner for social justice and the free press Henry Hetherington served on the founding committee of the London Mechanics Institution founded by George Birkbeck.
8 de abr. de 2017 · life stories. Henry Hetherington, 1792 – 1849. Chartist Ancestors. Campaigner against newspaper taxes, radical printer and leading London Chartist.
Henry Hetherington was a leading British Chartist. In 1822 he registered his own press and type at 13 Kingsgate Street, Holborn (now Southampton Row). Part of the NSS pamphlet collection. Creator. Holyoake, George Jacob [1817-1906] Cooper, Thomas. Date. 1849. Publisher. J. Watson. Subject. Chartism. Rights.
