1. Charles Wilfred Mowbray was an English anarcho-communist agitator, tailor, trade unionist and public speaker.
20 Facts About Charles Mowbray
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Charles Mowbray was arrested in 1892 and charged with conspiracy to murder in a high-profile trial but was acquitted.
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Charles Mowbray was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham in 1857.
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Charles Mowbray became known for his public speaking at a time of increasing police repression of open-air meetings.
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In September 1885 Charles Mowbray was prosecuted and fined alongside another socialist for "obstructing a public thoroughfare", namely Dod Street in Limehouse, London, after the police attacked a large outdoor protest meeting.
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Charles Mowbray was sentenced to nine months hard labour at Norwich Castle for "riot with force, injuring buildings and assault".
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Charles Mowbray became an active member of the Labour Emancipation League.
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Charles Mowbray argued that he had not been involved in producing the paper as he had been caring for his wife.
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Charles Mowbray was acquitted while Nicoll was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour.
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In 1893 Charles Mowbray was a delegate at the Zurich Anarchist Congress.
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In 1894, Charles Mowbray travelled to the United States to do a speaking tour in cities on the East Coast.
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On 28 December 1894 Charles Mowbray gave a lecture to the Ladies' Liberal League in Philadelphia after which he was arrested and charged with inciting riot and sedition.
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In early 1894, Charles Mowbray settled in Boston and began working as a tailor.
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That same year Charles Mowbray was used as an example during debates in Congress on the government's inability to stop anarchists from entering the United States.
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Charles Mowbray moved his family to Boston in April 1895 with the help of Josef Peukert.
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In Boston Charles Mowbray's public speaking helped inspire printer Harry Kelly into becoming an anarchist.
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Charles Mowbray later moved to New York, then Hoboken, New Jersey.
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However, Charles Mowbray then appeared to have abandoned his anarchist beliefs and began lecturing on tariff reform.
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In December 1910, Charles Mowbray died in bed from heart failure at a hotel in Bridlington, Yorkshire.
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Charles Mowbray had been in the area speaking in support of Conservative Party candidate Mark Sykes who was running against the incumbent Liberal MP Luke White.