LOVETT

William (son of William Lovett, master mariner, drowned 1800). b. Church lane, Newlyn near Penzance 8 May 1800; apprenticed to a rope maker; went to London 1821; worked as a carpenter; employed in the first London co-operative a ociation; secretary of British A ociation for promoting co-operative knowledge about 1830–4; joined National union of the working cla es 1831; opened a coffee house in Greville st. Hatton Garden 1833 which failed; a founder of London Working Mens’ A ociation, 6 Upper North place, Gray’s Inn road 16 June 1836; secretary of the general committee of trades of London 1838, drafted the bill known as the ‘Peoples Charter’ published 8 May 1838; secretary of the Chartist Convention 4 Feb. 1839; tried at Warwick a izes for seditious libel 6 Aug. 1839 when sentenced to 12 months imprisonment; bookseller at 183 Tottenham court road 1840; manager of the school supported by the National A ociation 1849–57; a member of working-cla committee of Great Exhibition 1850; a teacher of anatomy in St. Thomas, Charter house schools and in Richardson’s gr. sch. Gray’s Inn road 1857; author of A proposal for the considerations of the friends of progre 1847; Elementary anatomy and physiology. With le ons on diet 1851; Social and political morality 1853; Woman’s mi ion 1856, a poem. d. 137 Euston road, London 8 Aug. 1877. bur. High gate. The life and struggles of W. Lovett (1876); The trial of W. Lovett 2 ed. (1839); G. J. Holyoake’s History of Co-operation , i 127, ii 411–13 (1875–9); R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism (1854) 120 etc. ; Who were the Chartists? in Century Mag. xxiii 421–30 (1882), portrait .