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Holyoake, George Jacob

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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An active propagandist of advanced social theories, born at Birmingham; has lived a busy life as an agitator, lecturing and writing; he espoused the cause of Garibaldi, edited the Reasoner; was the last man to be imprisoned in England on a charge of atheism; was a zealous supporter of co-operation and all movements making for the betterment of the social condition of the working-classes; his numerous works embrace a valuable "History of Co-operation in England," "The Limits of Atheism," "Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life," &c.; b . 1817.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Holyoake, George Jacob'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​h/holyoake-george-jacob.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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