Maurice Margarot

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... More

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  • 1745

Date of death:

  • 1815 (age 70 years)

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Date of conviction:

  • Jan 1794

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