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CARLILE, RICHARD (1790-1843) , English freethinker, was born on the 8th of December 1790, at Ashburton , Devonshire, the son of a shoemaker. Educated in the village
apprenticeship , he obtained occupation in London as a journeyman tinman. Influenced by reading Paine's Rights of Man, he became an uncompromising radical, and in 1817 started pushing the sale of the Black Dwarf, a new weekly paper , edited by Jonathan Wooler, all over London, and in his zeal to secure the dissemination of its doctrines frequently walked 30 m. a day. In the same year he also printed and sold 25,000 copies of Southey's Wat Tyler, reprinted the suppressed Parodies of Hone, and wrote himself, in imitation of them, the Political Litany. This work
and for other publications of a like character he was fined 1500, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment in Dorchester gaol
Wellington , was now raised to prosecute Carlile
Carlile
sister
paper , and conducted free discussions in the London Rotunda. For refusing to give sureties for good behaviour after a prosecution arising out of a refusal to pay church rates, he was again imprisoned for three years, and a similar resistance cost him ten weeks' more imprisonment in 18341835. He died on the loth of February 1843, after having spent in all nine years and four months in prison.End of Article: CARLILE, RICHARD (1790-1843) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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