Samuel Holberry

In 1832 he joined the British army, leaving in 1835 and moving to Sheffield, where he began working as a distiller, and married Mary Cooper (22 October 1838).

[1] Together with other activists campaigning to extend the political rights given by the Reform Act 1832, he engaged in a number of peaceful protests.

The groups began to organise a militia, and supposedly "provided themselves with arms, and fixed upon a plan for taking some, and firing other parts of the town.

In contrast to many members of the group, Samuel freely admitted that he had aimed to upset the Government and was willing to die for the Charter.

In the 1980s, Sheffield City Council commemorated Holberry by naming a fountain in the Peace Gardens for him.