Thomas Attwood

(1783-1856)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Attwood, Thomas, 1783-1856 NRA: Attwood, Thomas (1783-1856) Political Reformer DNB: Attwood, Thomas (1783-1856), politician and currency theorist LBT ID: ThAttwo1856 VIAF ID: 30688096 LOC ID: n87933820	B/BAP: 1783-10-06 DIED: 1856-03-06
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The son of a Birmingham banker, he was a currency theorist who supported the Reform Act and Chartist movement and represented Birmingham in Parliament (1832).
REFERENCES TO Thomas Attwood: Archibald Hamilton Rowan to Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, 14 September 1821 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 4 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter X