
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Chartist leader. Peter Murray McDouall (1814-54) practised medicine in Ramsbottom from 1835-42, and was living here in 1842. In that year he alleged before a parliamentary committee that the Grant Brothers illegally paid wages in truck and led the two mile procession that delivered the Chartists' National Petition to Parliament. Recorded plaque organisation: Ramsbottom Heritage Society.
Peter Murray McDouall was a Chartist leader who practiced medicine in Ramsbottom; he is remembered for his role in exposing illegal wage practices and leading a significant Chartist procession to deliver the National Petition to Parliament.
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