18 Facts About Henry Vincent

Henry Vincent was active in the formation of early Working Men's Associations in Britain, a popular Chartist leader, brilliant and gifted public orator, prospective but ultimately unsuccessful Victorian member of parliament, and later an anti-slavery campaigner.

Henry Vincent saw his father's business fail, a decline in circumstances that prompted the family to move to Kingston upon Hull.

In 1838 Henry Vincent was given responsibility for promoting universal suffrage and welfare benefits and Working Men's Associations in industrial South Wales and the West Country of England from Cornwall up to Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

Henry Vincent was an accomplished public orator, passionate but logical and a clear, concise speaker with energy and drive.

Henry Vincent was able to convince men and women from all walks of life to agree with his message.

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Henry Vincent's attitude was perhaps the most easy and graceful of any popular orator of the time.

Government spies followed Henry Vincent, seeking evidence to arrest and convict him at a time when transportation to Australia or death by hanging were some of the punishments for stirring up social unrest.

In May 1839 Henry Vincent was arrested and imprisoned at Monmouth County Gaol for making inflammatory remarks.

Henry Vincent was eventually tried at Shire Hall, Monmouth on 2 August 1839 and sentenced to one year imprisonment.

Henry Vincent was re-arrested almost immediately for "using seditious language".

Henry Vincent was immediately back on the road, making up for lost time and promulgating the Chartist message throughout the country.

Henry Vincent now joined groups linked with the more readily popular temperance movement and helped form teetotal political societies.

Previously close allies within the Chartist movement such as Feargus O'Connor now fell out with Henry Vincent, disagreeing over the watering down of the physical force message and the distraction of the non-central temperance message.

In 1842 Henry Vincent contributed to the setting up of the Complete Suffrage Union.

Henry Vincent gave a lecture on the Great Exhibition at the Concert-room in Wisbech in 1851.

Henry Vincent stood for election as an Independent Radical in Ipswich, Tavistock, Kilmarnock, Plymouth, and finally York.

Henry Vincent spoke by invitation on progressive political subjects, such as "Oliver Cromwell" in Rochester, New York on 2 December 1869.

Henry Vincent died on 29 December 1878 and is buried at Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington.