Francis William Soutter (23 April 1844 – 9 May 1932) was an English Radical activist.[1]
Soutter was an advocate for independent labour representation in Parliament and campaigned for labour candidates, sometimes in opposition to Liberal candidates.[1] The Free Trade Union employed Soutter as a speaker.[2]
Notes
edit- ^ a b A. C. Howe, ‘Soutter, Francis William (1844–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 18 April 2010.
- ^ Anthony Howe, Free Trade and Liberal England. 1846-1946 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), p. 258.
Further reading
edit- F. W. Soutter, Recollections of a Labour Pioneer (1923).
- F. W. Soutter, Fights for Freedom (1925).
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