Maurice Margarot (1745–1815) is most notable for being one of the founding members of the London Corresponding Society, a radical society demanding parliamentary reform in the late eighteenth century.
Margarot had been a member of the campaign to free John Wilkes, and latterly the Bill of Rights Society, but he became truly radicalised as a result of the French Revolution. Living in France at the time, he was suitably impressed by the events in F...
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Maurice Margarot (1745–1815) is most notable for being one of the founding members of the London Corresponding Society, a radical society demanding parliamentary reform in the late eighteenth century.
Margarot had been a member of the campaign to free John Wilkes, and latterly the Bill of Rights Society, but he became truly radicalised as a result of the French Revolution. Living in France at the time, he was suitably impressed by the events in France that he returned to England to further the cause of reform. He followed Thomas Hardy into the newly-established London Corresponding Society in January 1792, and was subsequently elected as its chairman in May 1792. Margarot's signature, along with Hardy's, were present on all the early publications by the London Corresponding Society, and this continued for several years.
In November 1793, Margarot and Joseph Gerrald were chosen to attend the Edinburgh Convention organised by the Friends of the People Society - ostensibly a meeting for...
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