Thomas Slingsby Duncombe (1796-1861)
Thomas Duncombe, the representative of the workingmen in the House of Commons, was the great man of the session…
-- Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England, 1844
The more we see and hear him, the more we study his conduct and sift his motives, the more the conviction is forced upon us that this earnest advocate of the wrongs of the people is only playing at politics…
-- Fraser’s Magazine, “Contemporary Orators,” 1846
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