Thomas Perronet Thompson

Thomas Perronet Thompson (15 March 1783 – 6 September 1869)^[1] was a British Parliamentarian, a governor of Sierra Leone and a radical reformer. He became prominent in 1830s and 1840s as a leading activist in the Anti-Corn Law League. He specialized in the grass-roots mobilisation of opinion through pamphlets, newspaper articles, correspondence, speeches, and endless local planning meetings.^[2]