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- 4 January 1813: Alexander Thomson, Baron of the Exchequer, fires the Georgian state’s opening salvo in the great trial at York of Luddites from the West Riding
- 7 April 1812: Sheffield cemetery builders and metal-workers riot on market day against potato price inflation
- 11 January 1825: American comment on William Hirst of Leeds’s revolutionary and controversial labour-saving improvements to spinning and stubbing machines, patented today
- 26 October 1864: Martin Tobin confronts his ex-banker, William Beckett-Denison, regarding the bank charges levied on his account
- 12 April 1875: The Times tells how the ventilation tubes patented by Martin Tobin, a retired Leeds merchant, have ended air pollution in the borough’s police court
- 13 June 1864: With the assizes leaving York for the West Riding, manufacturers suffer a surprise defeat by landowners in the Lords in the choice of the new county town
- 27 September 1835: Gabriel Davis, an Ashkenazi optician of Woodhouse, asks a court to add him to the Leeds electoral roll
- 26 September 1835: The (Whig) Leeds Mercury reports the attempt of its proprietor and editor, Edward Baines Jnr, to qualify for the electoral register on the basis of shares in accommodation for the dead
- 27 June 1835: On the eve of municipal reform, the Leeds Mercury maps the self-electing clan that runs the Leeds corporation
- 19 September 1835: The Leeds Mercury attacks property valuations under the recent Municipal Corporations Act, which facilitate the political careers of men from the centre of town
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