AdminHistory | William Lovett (1800 - 1877) was born in Newlyn, Cornwall, he became a founder member of the London Working Men's Association (1836). He was arrested at Birmingham in June 1839 at a protest by Chartists against police action in breaking up popular meetings and was imprisoned for 12 months at Warwick Assizes. He took part in Joseph Sturge's Suffrage Conferences in Birmingham in 1842 and was an untiring political activist and writer. |