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 | | Its first secretary was Henry Hetherington, and his successor was Charles Westerton, “a gentleman who subsequently as churchwarden at Knightsbridge, rendered great service to the Liberal cause by his opposition to Puseyism ”. |
| | And in March 1850, on the invitation of the Bishop of Oxford and of Henry Cole, later to be the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, he agreed to become a member of the “Working Class Committee of the Great Exhibition” alongside Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackery. |
| | Charles H Neesom - A tailor, originally from Yorkshire; joined the LWMA soon after its formation, but was considered a violent revolutionary; abandoned physical force and threw in his lot with Lovett; ran a booksellers' business. |
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