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Henry Fothergill Chorley

1808 - 1872

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Journalist.

Slavery connections

No known connections with slavery.

Abolition connections

Henry Fothergill Chorley observed of Isaac D‘Israeli: ’I did not like the manner, above all things, in which he talked about the Slave Trade and Wilberforce’s life — how the latter was set down as a mere canter.' (Henry Fothergill Chorley, 8 May 1838; Autobiography, Memoirs, and Letters (1873), 1:190-92, <http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/CommentRecord.php?action=GET&cmmtid=4282> accessed 23 June 2021.)

National Gallery painting connections

Donor: bequeathed in 1872: NG897 ( now at Tate, N00897).

Bibliography

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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