The third group from Pontypool led by William Jones was too late and it had been met on the road by Blewitt who cautioned the men against insurrection.
The growth of the iron works at Cwmbran in the middle of the nineteenth century was due to Blewitt's ownership.
Blewitt resigned from the House of Commons in March 1852[8] recommending Lindsay as his successor, but it was Crawshay Bailey who took the seat.
The Beacon had been organised several years after the Merlin, started by Sir Joseph Bailey and other Monmouthshire conservatives, and it embarrassed other newspapers with the ferocity of its attacks on Blewitt.
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