Isaac Ironside

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Isaac Ironside (born September 17, 1808 in Pool Green near Masbrough , Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham , Yorkshire , † August 20, 1870 near Sheffield ) was an English chartist , follower of Robert Owen and publisher .

Life

Isaac Ironside grew up in Sheffield and was the son of lay preacher Samuel Ironside , a follower of John Wesley and Mary Bradbury . His younger brother was Samuel Ironside (1814-1897), who went to New Zealand as a Methodist missionary .

At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to a grate fitter. Then he worked in an iron foundry . He learned the profession of accountant in an evening course . He worked as a realtor and made a fortune of several thousand pounds sterling .

Shortly after his marriage, Ironside attended "Harmony Hall" in Tytherly, Hampshire by Robert Owen . Since the experiment was unsuccessful, he returned to Sheffield.

As a supporter of Chartism, Ironside joined the "Sheffield Political Union" in 1831 and worked as Secretary of the Radical Party for candidate Thomas Asline Ward , who narrowly lost the election in the 1832 general election. In 1833 he was a founding member of the Sheffield Mechanics Institute.

After the Chartists' first petition campaign failed, he became more involved in Sheffield local politics. In September 1838, Ironside was one of the speakers at the first major Chartist demonstration in Sheffield alongside Ebenezer Elliott and watchmaker Michael Beal .

He was elected to Sheffield City Council in 1846. He founded the "Central Democratic Association" with socialist and chartist demands. In 1849 he and another 22 members founded an Oweni farm in "Hollow Meadows."

He supported women's suffrage and encouraged Anne Knight to found the Sheffield Female Political Association .

In 1851 he founded the radical newspaper The Sheffield Free Press , which was not part of a party, as the newspaper's prospectus put it. In the first issue, Ironside announced: “In politics, the Sheffield Free Press will be found as the uncompromising defender of the right of all to the prerogatives of the citizen. To achieve the great principle of the 'Manhood Suffrage' (universal suffrage) and the guarantees for its free exercise; to put an end to class divisions and truly make people brothers; to exempt labor by eliminating all taxes on exchange of goods; to disseminate knowledge by opposing the shameful paper and newspaper taxes and to assert the state's duty to create an effective public education system; enforce global peace through protests against aggressive wars; humanize our criminal law by advocating the abolition of the death penalty; To enforce frugality by drawing attention to abuses of the civil list, the corrupt pension list, and our unnecessarily large land and naval forces; and to advocate a simple, inexpensive and fair system of taxation in the country. That will be the principles of the Sheffield Press. "

He and his co-editor William Cyples corresponded with Karl Marx in 1856 about his work "Revelations of the diplomatic history of the 18th century".

In January 1855, Lord Aberdeen's government was overthrown . It was followed by that of Lord Palmerston . Ironside, Collet Dobson Collet and David Urquhart turned against this government with numerous meetings and publications. Numerous articles have also appeared in the columns of the Sheffielder Free Press. At the end of August 1856 the newspaper The Sheffield Free Press was transferred to London and continued there under the name The Free Press under the influence of David Urquhart and under the editorial staff of Collet Dobson Collet.

In 1868, Isaac Ironside gave up his council seat. He was married to his wife Elizabeth and had five daughters: Emma (* 1835), Frances (* 1841), Una (* 1845), Kate (* 1850) and Lilian (* 1852). He was buried in Sheffield Main Cemetery in 1870 .

Sheffield Cemetery where Isaac Ironside was buried.

Karl Marx and "The Sheffield Free Press"

  • Karl Marx: The Story of Lord Palmerston . In: The Sheffield Free Press . No. 12 of December 29, 1855; No. 13 of January 5, 1856; No. 14 of January 12, 1856; No. 18 of February 9, 1856; No. 19 of February 16, 1856
  • Karl Marx: The Story of Lord Palmerston . In: The Sheffield Free Press Serials . No. IV, V, Sheffield 1856
  • Karl Marx: Kars Papers Curiosities . The Sheffield Free Press, No. 4, May 3, 1856
  • Karl Marx: Revelations of the diplomatic history of the 18th century . In: The Sheffield Free Press . No. 12 dated June 28, 1856; No. 13 of July 5, 1856; No. 14 dated July 12, 1856; No. 15 of July 19, 1856.

Works

  • Price of leather. To the boot and shoemakers . Sheffield Foreign Affairs Committee. Leaflet on the economic consequences of Palmerston's foreign policy. Drawn Isaac Ironside. Sheffield, February 3, 1857.
  • The part of France and Russia in the surrender by England of the right of search. Correspondence between the Sheffield foreign affairs committee and the Lord advocate . London 1866 digitized
  • Trades' unions. To address. At a public meeting held in the Temperance Hall, Sheffield, on Monday, September 30, 1867. Mr. Edwin Grayson in the chair . R. Hardwick, London; J. Robetshaw, Sheffield 1867.

literature

  • John Salt: Isaac Ironside and Education in the Sheffield Region in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. (MA theses University of Sheffield, Education, 1960)
  • John Salt: Isaac Ironside the Sheffield Owenite . In: Co-operative Review . Volume 24, (1960), pp. 218-219.
  • John Salt: Isaac Ironside and the Hollow Meadows Farm Experiment . In: Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic Research. Vol. 12, Issue 1, 1960, pp. 45-51.
  • John Salt: Local Manifestions of the Urquhartite Movement . In: International Review of Social History . Volume 13, Amsterdam 1968, 350-355.
  • John Salt: Experiments in anarchism, 1850-1854 . In: Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society . Volume 10/1, (1971), pp. 37-53.
  • John Salt: Isaac Ironside, 1808-1870. The motivation of a radical educationalist . In: British Journal of Educational Studies . Volume 19, (1971), No. 2, pp. 183-201.
  • Allan Merson : The Free Press (1851-1856) . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research 11. Berlin 1982, pp. 137–156. Digitized
  • WHG Armytage: Sheffield an the Crimian was. Politics and industrials 1852-1857 (History Today. 2000) .
  • Matthew Lee: Ironside, Isaac (1808-1870) . In: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Famalysearch death record
  2. ↑ Ecclesall Bierlow Registration District
  3. ^ WA Chambers: Samuel Ironside in New Zealand, 1839-1858 . Auckland 1982 ISBN 0-908596-15-4 .
  4. ^ Allan Morton: The Free Presse (1851-1856) , p. 138.
  5. ^ The life of Thomas Cooper written by himself . London 1897.
  6. ↑ Matthew Lee: Ironside, Isaac (1808-1870) .
  7. ↑ John Salt: Isaac Ironside and the Hollow Meadows Farm Experiment .
  8. ↑ Jane Rendall: Politics in Britain 1780-1870. Women's Claiming Citizenship . Women's rights and Chartism ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ^ Allan Morton: The Free Presse (1851-1856) , p. 141.
  10. ↑ K arl Marx. Friedrich Engels. Collected Works . Progress Publishers, Moskow 1986, pp. 25-96.
  11. ↑ 6. William Cyples to Karl Marx in May 1856. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department III. Volume 8, Berlin 1990, p. 262.
  12. ↑ Isaac Ironside to Karl Marx June 14, 1856. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe. Department III. Volume 8, Berlin 1990, p. 272.
  13. ^ Isaac Ironside to Karl Marx June 23, 1856. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe. Department III. Volume 8, Berlin 1990, p. 276.
  14. ↑ 24. William Cyples to Karl Marx in June 1856. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe. Department III. Volume 8, Berlin 1990, p. 277.
  15. ↑ William Cyples to Karl Marx on July 28, 1856. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe. Department III. Volume 8, Berlin 1990, p. 282.
  16. ↑ William Cyples 14. Karl Marx in July 1856. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe. Department III. Volume 8, Berlin 1990, pp. 290-292.
  17. ↑ 15. William Cyples to Karl Marx in July 1856. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe. Department III. Volume 8, Berlin 1990, p. 298.
  18. ↑ 19. William Cyples to Karl Marx in July 1856. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe. Department III. Volume 8, Berlin 1990, p. 306.
  19. ↑ Karl Marx 22. William Cyples July 1856. In: Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe. Department III. Volume 8, Berlin 1990, pp. 30-32.
  20. ^ Allan Morton: The Free Presse (1851-1856) , p. 144.
  21. ^ CD Collet: History of the Taxes on knowledge. Volume 2. London 1899, pp. 57-58.
  22. ^ General Register Office, Indexes of Births and Marriages
  23. ↑ Matthew Lee: Ironside, Isaac (1808-1870) .
personal data
SURNAME Ironside, Isaac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chartist, follower of David Urquhart
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Pool Green at Masbrough , Rotherham
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1870
Place of death at Sheffield