Person Details

Lovett, William (1800-1877) Chartist

GB/NNAF/P157874   (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P17925)

Location of Related Collections
Scopec1836-50: corresp and papers
RepositoryBirmingham: Archives and Heritage Service
Record ReferenceMS 753
NRA catalogue referenceNRA 32192 Lovett
Other referencesee HMC Papers of British politicians 1782-1900, 1989
ScopeMS autobiography
RepositoryConway Hall Ethical Society (formerly South Place Ethical Society)
Other referencesee South Place Ethical Society file
Scope1839: corresp and papers as Chartist National Convention secretary
RepositoryBritish Library, Manuscript Collections
Record ReferenceAdd MS 34245
Scope1836-47: minutes mainly in his hand of Working Men's Association
RepositoryBritish Library, Manuscript Collections
Record ReferenceAdd MSS 37773-76
Scope1830: paper, 'To the Wealth Producing Classes of England'
RepositoryLondon University: Senate House Library
Record ReferenceMS 167 link to online catalogueexternal link - opens in a new window
Scope1837: Two manuscript texts, with a preface in a different hand (probably Lovett) addressed 'to my working class brethren', comprising A Petition for Universal Suffrage, No Property Qualifications, Annual Parliaments, Equal Representation, Payment of Members, and Vote by Ballot. Addressed to the House of Commons, 'agreed to at a public meeting held at the Crown and Anchor, Strand, 28 February 1837', and Letter from the Permanent and Central Committee of Montreal to the London Working Man's Association. Expressing solidarity with their fellows and desire to uphold principles of democracy in the old world and the new.
RepositoryLondon University: London School of Economics Library, Archives Division
Record ReferenceSR 0223 link to online catalogueexternal link - opens in a new window
Scope1834-41: corresp with Francis Place
RepositoryBritish Library, Manuscript Collections
Record ReferenceAdd MSS 35149-51 passim
Scopepapers
RepositoryBritish Library, Manuscript Collections
Record ReferenceAdd MSS 78161-78164
Other referencesee Annual return 2001

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