Thomas Spence
(1750-1814)

radical, writer, and reformer

Died aged 64

Thomas Spence (2 July [O.S. 21 June] 1750 – 8 September 1814) was an English Radical and advocate of the common ownership of land and a democratic equality of the sexes. Spence was one of the leading revolutionaries of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was born in poverty and died the same way, after long periods of imprisonment, in 1814.

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Broad Garth. Thomas Spence 1750-1814. Born Quayside, Newcastle. Utopian writer and land reformer. Courageous pioneering campaigner for the rights of men and women. Founded a schoolroom and debating society in Broad Garth. "Dare to be Free"

Fenwick's Entry, off Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom where they taught