Joseph Rayner Stephens

(1805-1879)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Stephens, Joseph Rayner, 1805-1879 DNB: Stephens, Joseph Rayner (1805-1879), social reformer LBT ID: JoSteph1879 VIAF ID: 69363961 LOC ID: n86145714	B/BAP: 1805-03-08 DIED: 1879-02-18
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Educated at Leeds and Manchester grammar schools, he was a schoolmaster, Wesleyan preacher and Chartist agitator.
REFERENCES TO Joseph Rayner Stephens: Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXIV. Found 2: ¶ 54 ¶ 56