Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Thomas Hardy
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Standard Name: Hardy, Thomas,, 1752 - 1832
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Olaudah Equiano | After settling in London in 1777, OE
became well acquainted with members of the anti-slavery movement and other reformers, including another Black author, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
, and the reformer Thomas Hardy
. He met... |
| politics | Thomas Holcroft | He came to trial along with Thomas Hardy
, Daniel Adams
, and John Horne Tooke
. Some of his co-defendants were acquitted and the case was dropped. Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979. 332-3 |
| politics | Mary Tighe | MT
was a liberal Whig in political opinions. She celebrated the famous acquittal of Thomas Hardy
, John Thelwall
, and John Horne Tooke
of the charge of high treason in a sonnet Written on... |
Timeline
January 1792
A shoemaker named Thomas Hardy
founded the London Corresponding Society
, an association for working men interested in political reform.
12 May 1794
Thomas Hardy
, founder and secretary of the LondonCorresponding Society
, and Daniel Adams
, secretary of the Society for Constitutional Information
, were arrested at their homes.
September 1794
Indictments against Thomas Hardy
, John Horne Tooke
, and John Thelwall
argued that proposals radically to limit the power of the king should rank as treason.
6 October 1794
A London grand jury found twelve accused radicals guilty of high treason. Lord Chief Justice Eyre had delivered them the charge.
5 November 1794
Thomas Hardy
was acquitted at the Old Bailey
of high treason, after a trial which had opened on 28 October 1794.