Robert Buchanan (Owenite)

A contributor to Northern Star, the organ of the Chartist movement, Buchanan was never a "physical force" militant.

The socialists meeting there were prosecuted for having lectures on Sunday and charging for admission, contrary to a statute of George II.

They were prepared to show that the "collection" had been a voluntary one, but when witnesses declined to take the oath there was no legal defence, and they were fined.

[1] The context was a claim, in the Owenite New Moral World of 11 April 1840, that the Halls of Science were "churches of the people".

[7] In August of that year he attempted to enter the Anti-Corn Law meeting of ministers in Manchester Town Hall, with Lloyd Jones and Alexander Campbell (1796–1870), also an Owenite.

[9] Its direction was "Home Colonies" and the co-operative movement, bringing Buchanan into contact with George Holyoake.

[3] From 1850 to 1860 Buchanan edited the Glasgow Sentinel, owned by Alexander Gardner, which became a freethinking and radical paper.

Wife and son took up residence at the Ham Common Concordium in 1842, when Buchanan moved south.