Dismissal of Richard Oastler
Dismissal of Richard Oastler, white metal medal, , 1838, by T. Halliday, bare-head of Richard Oastler right, THE OASTLER NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL/ 1838, rev. . a cottage amongst trees with a church in the distance and man ploughing, DWELL IN THE LAND & VERILY THOU SHALT BE FED/ LIVE AND LET LIVE, with beehive above, 39 mm (BHM 1871), pierced for suspension. Unrecorded in this metal; about extremely fine and rare. £Sold
Richard Oastler (1789-1861), the Factory King. Advocate of the Abolition of Slavery and also for improving factory legislation. In 1838 he and his supporters effectively stage-managed his dismissal as steward of the Fixby Estates by his opposition to the estate’s Commissioners and the New Poor Law. It was recorded at the time that “The procession was headed by a number of gentlemen on horseback, with white wands, and decorated with Oastler’s medal suspended from a white ribbon ..”.
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