John Binns

(1772-1860)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Binns, John, 1772-1860 DNB: Binns, John (1772-1860), radical and journalist LBT ID: JoBinns1860 VIAF ID: 40780919 LOC ID: n84136272	B/BAP: 1772-12-22 DIED: 1860-06-16
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Irish radical associated with the United Irishman; after several arrests he emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1801 and became a journalist. He published Recollections of the life of John Binns: twenty-nine years in Europe and fifty-three in the United States (1854).
REFERENCES TO John Binns: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 129