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William J. "Wild Bill" Lovett (July 15, 1894 – November 1, 1923) was an Irish American gangster in early 20th century New York.
William Lovett was a British activist and leader of the Chartist political movement.
William Lovett (8 May 1800 – 8 August 1877) was a British activist and leader of the Chartist political movement.

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CHAPTER V.

IN 1836 I was appointed, at a public meeting held at the Mechanics' Institute, one of the committee for the drawing up of an Act of Parliament for the regulation of benefit societies—an act that became law in the same year, and by which a person was appointed to certify that the rules of such societies are in accordance with the Act; Tidd Pratt being the first official appointed.

About this period, too, I drew up a petition to Parliament, praying that the landowners may be compelled to fulfil the conditions upon which they hold their lands; namely, by defraying the expenses of the state. The petition set forth the monstrous injustice of the land of the country—which a bountiful Creator bestowed upon all his children—being engrossed and held in possession by comparatively a few persons; and who, by virtue of an almost exclusive power of legislation, have enacted the most oppressive laws to protect what they call their property. That no agreement, however, which giv

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William Lovett

British activist

For other people with similar names, see William Lovett (disambiguation).

William Lovett (8 May 1800 – 8 August 1877) was a British activist and leader of the Chartist political movement. He was one of the leading London-based artisan radicals of his generation.

Biography

Early activism

Born in the Cornish town of Newlyn in 1800, Lovett moved to London as a young man seeking work as a cabinet maker. He was self-educated, became a member of the Cabinetmakers Society, and later its President. He rose to national political prominence as founder of the Anti-Militia Association (slogan: 'no vote, no musket'), and was active in wider trade unionism through the Metropolitan Trades Union^[1] and Owenite socialism. In 1831, during the Reform Act agitation, he helped form the National Union of the Working Classes with radical colleagues Henry Hetherington and James Watson. After the passage of the Reform Act 1832 he turned, with Hetherington, to the campaign to repeal taxes on newspapers known as the War of the Unstamped.

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INDEX.
WILLIAM LOVETT, from. . . .
1.	Harper's Magazine, 1877
2.	'Who were the Chartists', by W. J. LINTON, (1882).
3.	'The History of Co-operation', by G. J. HOLYOAKE (1906).
4.	Fabian Tract No. 199,by L. BARBARA HAMMOND (1922).

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HARPER'S
NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE
VOLUME LIV., 1877.

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WILLIAM LOVETT,
WORKING-MAN, CHARTIST, PRISONER, AND AUTHOR.
(1800-77)
BY
MONCURE D. CONWAY.

FOR some years it has been my much-valued privilege to call occasionally at a modest and comfortable residence in the Euston Road, London, to converse with a venerable gentleman whose life and recollections represent the most interesting chapters of popular movement in England within this century. We sometimes read of the appearance here and there of some survivor from the wars of N