Joshua Hobson

Joshua Hobson
Born1810
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England
Died1876 (aged 65–66)
OccupationsChartist, Tory Radical and publisher

Joshua Hobson (1810–1876) was a British Chartist and Tory Radical who was the first publisher of the Book of Murder, a pamphlet attacking the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. From 1838 to 1844 he was the publisher of the Chartist newspaper Northern Star.

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