To an address to be made by Samuel Bowley, President of the National Temperance League, at the Athenaeum, [London]. Addressed to Revd. [James] Woolcock in Plymouth.
On the reverse of the invitation are miscellaneous pencil notes.
Notes .
- Samuel Bowley (1802-84) was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. A successful businessman, Bowley was a devout member of the Society of Friends and a leading philanthropist. He played a leading role in the fight against slavery and agitated for the repeal of the Corn Laws. He was a founder of the British and Ragged Schools in Gloucester and was a strong advocate of a national education system. It was as a temperance campaigner that Bowley was best known. He served as President of the National Temperance League and of the Temperance Hospital. In the last year of his life Bowley attended and addressed more than one hundred temperance meetings. Source: Dictionary of National Biography