Hugh Hornby Birley

Hugh Hornby Birley

Hugh Hornby Birley (10 March 1778 – 31 July 1845) was a leading Manchester Tory who is reputed to have led the fatal charge of troops at the Peterloo Massacre but was also instrumental in founding the Royal Victoria Gallery of Practical Science in 1839. [citation |title=Hugh Birley |work=Spartacus Educational |url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRbirley.htm |accessdate=10 August 2007] [Harvnb|Kargon|1977|pp=36–38] He was associated with the Royal Manchester Institution [Harvnb|Kargon|1977|p=41] and a moving force in the establishment of Owens College. [Harvnb|Kargon |1977|p=154] He was a director of the Manchester Gas Works and became a business associate of Charles Macintosh with the intention of putting the works' waste products to profitable use in the manufacture of waterproof fabrics. [Harvnb|Kargon|1977|p=137]

His father was Richard Birley (1743–1812), merchant, who had four sons and four daughters. Hugh's brother, Joseph Burley (1782–1847), was the father of Hugh Birley who served as Member of Parliament for Manchester from 1868 to 1883.citation |url=http://www.birley.org/dbirleya/d11.htm#P31 | title=David and Linda Birley Genealogies |year=2002–4 |accessdate=10 August 2007 - features references to primary sources]

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*citation |last=Kargon |first=R. H. |title=Science in Victorian Manchester: Enterprise and Expertise |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |year=1977 |isbn=0-8018-1969-5
*citation |title=From seditious libel to unlawful assembly: Peterloo and the changing face of political crime c1770–1820 |last=Lobban |first=M. |journal=Oxford Journal of Legal Studies |volume=10(3) |year=1990 |pages=307–352 |doi=10.1093/ojls/10.3.307
*citation |first=Robert |last=Walmsley |title=Peterloo: The Case Re-opened |publisher=Manchester University Press |date=1969 |isbn=0-7190-0392-X

External links

* [http://www.birley.org/jbirleyd/d15375.htm#P15375 Entry on Birley family genealogy]
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRbirley.htm Hugh Birley, at Spartacus International]


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