George Loveless (preacher)

George Loveless (2 February 1797 – 26 December 1874) was a British Methodist preacher and a leader of a group of six agricultural workers who became known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

[3] In the early 1830s he represented agricultural labourers from Dorchester in discussions with farmers, who agreed to raise wages to ten shillings a week.

[1] On 25 May 1833 Loveless was taken to Portsmouth and set sail for Van Dieman's Land, arriving on 4 September 1833.

On hearing the news, Loveless refused immediate free passage back to Britain as he had some months previously written to his wife requesting that she join him.

[3] Loveless and his brother James settled in London, Ontario where George took out a mortgage on a 100 acre farm.