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WILSON, George (1808-1870)

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Born: 1808

Died: 1870

Editorial Description

pres MANCHESTER PHREN SOC; son of John Wilson, corn merchant; on Manchester Town Council, 1839-42; master wire puller of radical politics in Lancashire; chairman of Anti-Corn Law League and close colleague of R. COBDEN; sec of the Manchester "Friends of Education" who invited J. SIMPSON to lecture in Manchester in 1836; pres National Reform Union, 1864; managing director of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway after 1860. (MEB)

Editorial Information

Identifier 1208.
Type Person
Source Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page 352
Printed page 347
Database ID 3315
Original Transcription 
1208. WILSON, George (1808-1870), pres MANCHESTER PHREN SOC;
son of John Wilson, corn merchant; on Manchester Town Council,
1839-42; master wire puller of radical politics in Lancashire; chairman


of Anti-Corn Law League and close colleague of R. COBDEN; sec of
the Manchester "Friends of Education" who invited J. SIMPSON to
lecture in Manchester in 1836; pres National Reform Union, 1864;
managing director of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway after 1860. (MEB)