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Freeholder Land Society founders discuss estate and votes
Henry Perase chairs a meeting celebrating the purchase of 46 acres near Darlington. Speakers praise land ownership as moral uplift, temperance synergy, and a path to wider suffrage, urging working men to join Freehold Land Societies and secure a voice in Parliament.
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Henry Perase
Darlington
Bright
Manchester
Rochdale
John Fyfe
Pease
Belle Vue Gardens
CuarnmMan
Peel-place
Cobden-street
Bright-street
Franchise
Taylor-street
Victoria-place
Milton-street
Freehold
Joan Hannis
Commons
House of Parliament
James Taylor
House of Commons
Birmingham
Mechanics
Parliament
Freehold Land Society
Building Society
Taylor
J. F. ChapHam
Germany
G. Law
Macseru
Columbus
Atlantic
India
America
J. W. Prass
James ‘Taylor
Thomas Copps
Tayton
William Richardson