Robert LeBlond was a leading member of the National Charter Association in its final days, and an important link with middle class reform organisations. But his real interest was in secularism - still a quite shocking idea for many people.
LeBlond supported the secularist cause with the wealth generated by his print business, and promised to do more. But then things went badly wrong for him.
Although a little-known figure in the history of Chartism, I’ve been researching his life story - and, thanks to his three times great granddaughter and her assiduous work on family history, have even been able to include a photograph with the biography I’ve put together for Chartist Ancestors.
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