Lovett, William

Lovett, William

▪ British politician
born May 8, 1800, Newlyn, Cornwall, Eng.
died Aug. 8, 1877, London
 Chartist leader in England, the person mainly responsible for drafting the People's Charter of 1838, demanding electoral reform.

      A cabinetmaker in London after 1821, he was self-educated in economics and politics and a follower of the utopian socialist Robert Owen. In 1829 he became honorary secretary to the British Association for the Promotion of Co-operative Knowledge, an organization that proved to be extremely important in the development of working-class radicalism. In 1836 Lovett and a number of other London radicals founded the London Workingmen's Association, which issued the People's Charter two years later.

      Lovett's moderation made it difficult for him to work with the more militant Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor; thus his role in Chartism was limited, although in 1839 he was secretary of a Chartist national convention. Arrested after Chartist disturbances in Birmingham while the convention was in progress there, he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment in Warwick jail. There he and John Collins, a fellow prisoner, wrote Chartism: A New Organization of the People. (See also Chartism.)

      In 1841 Lovett established the National Association for Promoting the Political and Social Improvement of the People, to which he devoted most of his energies. He wrote (after 1857) a number of textbooks for working-class students. His autobiography was published in 1876.

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