With Charles Buller and Edward Wakefield, he was a powerful orator in Place's camp, and the group impressed James Mill, so bridging the gap between Philosophical Radicals and those from the working class.
[5] Place had contacts, he said, with 13 "military officers" of rank at least major, who would act in favour of the reform legislation then stalled in parliament, if the King made them ministers.
In what was civil disobedience, Revell went to an NPU branch meeting at Bethnal Green to take the chair, as the reformers made efforts to gain parish-level support in London.
[8] In autumn 1832, Murphy made a strong attack on Henry Brougham and the Grey administration's Irish policy, at a meeting chaired by Revell.
[9] William Lockey Harle, a solicitor and radical, saw Revell speak at the Crown and Anchor, Strand at an 1833 meeting for Daniel O'Connell, who was late.
[31][17][32] Revell's son-in-law Redmond Hervey De Montmorency, also of the 9th Light Dragoons, quarrelled seriously with Peters over lance drill, and published a book in 1820 setting out his own views.