Thomas Attwood

Background

Thomas Attwood was born on October 6, 1783 in Halesowen, Dudley, United Kingdom.

Education

Thomas Attwood attended Halesowen Grammar School (now Earls High School) before being moved to Wolverhampton Grammar School.

Career

He founded the Birmingham Political Union in 1830. This was a political organization campaigning for cities, and large towns such as Birmingham, to be directly represented in Parliament. He died in Malvern, Worcestershire.

A grade II listed statue of Thomas Attwood stood in Larches Green, Sparkbrook, Birmingham between 1974 and 2008, but is now in store.

A 1993 bronze statue sits, having left his plinth, and scattered his bronze pages, on the steps of Chamberlain Square in Birmingham. Attwood is also commemorated at Birmingham City University North Campus (Perry Barr) The "Attwood" Building hosts the courses involving education, such as Primary Education with Qualified Teaching Status, Early Childhood Education Studies and Integrated and Professional Childcare.

Achievements

• He was the leading figure of the underconsumptionist Birmingham School of economists, and, as the founder of the Birmingham Political Union, the leading figure in the public campaign for the Great Reform Acting of 1832. The Birmingham Political Union was foremost among groups lobbying the government for the passage of the Reform Bill to achieve this aim. Attwood Street, a residential street in Halesowen, commemorates his achievements.

Works

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  • The Scotch Banker; Containing Articles: Under That Signature on Banking, Currency (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from The Scotch Banker; Containing Articles: Unde...)

  • Observations on currency, population, and pauperism : in two letters to Arthur Young, Esq.

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • The Scotch Banker - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • The Scotch Banker

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • Observations On Currency, Population, And Pauperism: In Two Letters To Arthur Young (1818)

    (This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)

  • Observations on currency, population, and pauperism, in 2 letters

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • Observations On Currency, Population, and Pauperism: In Two Letters to Arthur Young, Esq - Primary Source Edition

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • The Scotch Banker; Containing Articles Under That Signature on Banking, Currency,

    (The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numer...)

  • The Scotch banker, articles under that signature by T. Attwood republ. from the Globe newspaper

    (Lang:- English, Pages 207. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)

Connections

In 1806 Thomas Attwood married Elizabeth Carless.