Walter Fawkes

[2] Early in life Fawkes became an active member of the advanced section of the whig party, being M.P.

He took a prominent part in the anti-slave trade movement, and spoke effectively in the debate which preceded the passing of Wilberforce's measure.

[3] Fawkes is best remembered, however, as the intimate friend and one of the earliest patrons of J. M. W. Turner, the artist.

Turner had a welcome and a home at Farnley Hall, Fawkes's Wharfedale residence, whenever he chose to go, and used to spend months at a time there.

A. Rhodes of Horsforth he founded the Otley Agricultural Society, one of the first of its kind in England.

[3] The Englishman's Manual brought a reply the same year from Michael Thomas Sadler.

[5] The children included: Fawkes then married, in 1816, Maria Sophia, widow of Rev.