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OASTLER, RICHARD (1789-1861)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 937 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OASTLER, RICHARD (1789-1861) , English reformer, was born at Leeds on the loth of December 1789, and in 182o succeeded his father as steward of the Thornhills' extensive Fixby estates at Huddersfield, Yorkshire. In 183o John
Wood
 , a Bradford manufacturer, called
Oastler
 's attention to the evils of child employment in the factories of the
district
 .
Oastler
  at once started a campaign against the existing labour conditions by a vigorous
letter
 , under the title " Yorkshire Slavery," to the Leeds Mercury, Public
opinion
  was eventually aroused, and, after many years of agitation, in which Oastler played a leading part, the Ten Hours Bill and other Factory Acts were passed, Oastler's energetic advocacy of the factory-workers' cause procuring him the title of " The Factory King." In 1838, however, owing to his opposition to the new poor law and his resistance of the commissioners, he had been dismissed from his stewardship at Fixby; and, in 184o, being unable to repay 2000 which he owed his
late
  employer,
Thomas
  Thornhill, he was sent to the
Fleet
  prison, where he remained for over three years. From prison he published the
Fleet
  Papers, a weekly
paper
  devoted to the discussion of factory and poor-law questions. In 1844 his friends raised a fund to pay his debt, and on his release he made a triumphant entry into Huddersfield. Oastler died at Harrogate on the 22nd of August 1861. A statue to his memory was erected at Bradford in 186g.


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