O'Connor, Feargus Edward

O'Connor, Feargus Edward
born с July 18, 1796, Connorville, County Cork, Ire.
died Aug. 30, 1855, London, Eng.

Irish leader of Chartism.

He practiced law and served in the British Parliament (1832–35). He turned to radical agitation in England and was active in the Chartist movement as a popular public speaker. His journal Northern Star (1837) gave his views wide circulation. He became the Chartists' leader in 1841 but was unable to effect passage of the Chartist petition in 1848. After a mental collapse, he was declared insane in 1852.

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▪ Irish leader
born , c. July 18, 1796, Connorville, County Cork, Ire.
died Aug. 30, 1855, London
 prominent Chartist leader who succeeded in making Chartism the first specifically working class national movement in Great Britain.

      O'Connor, who claimed royal descent from the ancient kings of Ireland, practiced law but exchanged law for politics when he entered the British Parliament in 1832 as a member for County Cork. Unseated in 1835, O'Connor turned to radical agitation in England, although he continued to press Irish grievances and to seek Irish support. As a result of his humour, invective, and energy, O'Connor became the best known Chartist leader and the movement's most popular speaker. His journal, the Northern Star (founded in 1837), gained a wide circulation.

      O'Connor's methods and views alienated other Chartist leaders, particularly William Lovett, but in 1841, after spending a year in prison for seditious libel, O'Connor acquired undisputed leadership of the Chartists. Failing to lead the movement to victory and vacillating in his attitude toward the middle class and toward the Charter (a six-point bill drafted and published in May 1838), O'Connor began to lose power, although he was elected to Parliament for Nottingham (1847). The failure of the Charter in 1848 marked the beginning of the end for O'Connor, whose egocentricity was already bordering on madness. Declared insane in 1852, he died three years later.

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