The Chartist Regional Leader, Patrick Matthew was a delegate of the 1839 General Convention of the Industrious Classes elected by the "Radical Reformers of Great Britain" - for enactment of The People's Charter.
See the proof: (here).
The privileged landowning classes, including Charles Darwin and many other naturalists feared the Chartists https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/politics/g7/
In this book you see Matthew named as a delegate alongside other famous electoral reform leaders in 1839 such as William Lovett, Henry Vincent, Fergus O'Conner, John Collins and John Frost,
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