Collet Dobson Collet
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Collet Dobson Collet (31 December 1812 - 28 December 1898) was a Radical freethinker, Chartist and campaigner against newspaper taxation.
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[edit] Background & Work
A career in the Law, aborted due to lack of money, Collet became Director of music at South Place Chapel, and was heavily involved in the Chartist movement.
He became Secretary of the People's Charter Union, and of the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee in 1849.
From 1851 - 1870 he was Secretary of the Association for the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge.
[edit] Book
Collet's book, A History of the Taxes on Knowledge, was first published in 1899. It was subsequently re-published in the Thinker's Library series in 1933.
[edit] Works by Collet
A History of the Taxes on Knowledge: their origin and repeal. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899 (2 vols)
[edit] References
- Royle, Edward (1974). Victorian Infidels: the origins of the British Secularist Movement, 1791-1866. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-0557-4 Online version
