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 | | He was known as a forensic member of committees and a champion of the interests of his constituency, supporting the vote of censure against Lord Palmerston in 1864 and declaring in favour of extensions to the suffrage concurrent with adequate education. |
 | | In the City he was elected as a member of the Common Council for the ward of Bridge in 1842, appointed Deputy in 1864, Alderman in 1871 and Sheriff in 1873. |
 | | He did, however, argue for government retrenchment, shorter parliaments, civil and religious liberty, suffrage 'by instalments', the abolition of church rates, the lowering of the county franchise, the readjustment of local taxation and for master and man to be put on 'an equal footing'. |
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