John Plummer

(1831-1914)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Plummer, John, b. 1831 LBT ID: JoPlumm1914 VIAF ID: 75323805 LOC ID: n85825535	B/BAP: 1831-06-03 DIED: 1914-03-09
SOURCES: Virtual International Authority File; Australian Dictionary of Biography; LOC Name Authority File
A factory laborer who challenged the shoemakers' union in Freedom of Labour (1859); finding support from Henry Brougham and Charles Dickens he worked as a journalist before emigrating to Australia in 1879.
REFERENCES TO John Plummer: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 18