Abel Heywood (February 25, 1810 - August 19, 1893) was an English publisher, radical and sometime mayor of Manchester. Starting work at nine-years old, Heywood was an energetic autodidact who, following a summary dismissal by his manufacturing employer, set up a penny reading room in Manchester. He soon developed the enterprise into publishing a newspaper but refused to pay the stamp duty intended to suppress mass publishing. Wikipedia
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Abel Heywood ( February 25 , 1810 - August 19 , 1893 ) was an English publisher , radical and sometime mayor of Manchester . Starting work at nine-years old, Heywood was an energetic autodidact who, following a summary dismissal by his manufacturing empl domainhelp.search.com/reference/Abel_Heywood
Abel Heywood was born in 1810 and began working in a warehouse at the age of nine. He educated himself by attending classes at the Mechanics Institute. He set up a penny news room in Oldham Street where Henry Hetherington 's Poor Man's Guardian was sold www.chartists.net/Manchester-Chartists.htm