Edward Hooson
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| Born | 16 April 1825 |
| Died | 11 December 1869 (aged 44) |
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Edward Hooson (16 April 1825 – 11 December 1869) was an English Chartist, co-operator, and a wire drawer by trade.[1][2]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Hooson was born near Halifax, Yorkshire, and had a limited education. He apprenticed as a wire drawer before moving to Manchester, where he became active in the chartist movement. He became close friends with the chartist poet Ernest Jones.[1] He was a co-founder of the Union and Emancipation Society based in Manchester, an influential abolitionist campaign supporting the Union in the American Civil War.[2][3] In the 1860s he was chairman of the Manchester branch of the Reform League.[1]
He was a founding member of the North of England Co-operative Wholesale Society (later the CWS) and served on the committee from 1866 until his death.[2]
Hooson died aged 44 on 11 December 1869 and was buried in Ardwick Cemetery in Manchester.[1]
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