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Anti-Corn Law League |
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Anti-Corn Law LeagueAn extra-parliamentary pressure group formed in the UK in September 1838 by Manchester industrialists, and led by Liberals Richard Cobden and John Bright. It argued for free trade and campaigned successfully against duties on the import of foreign corn to Britain imposed by the Corn Laws, which were repealed in 1846. |
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| The bazaar inspired a great deal of poetry, including a commemorative verse by William Gardner, A Rythmical Notice of the Anti-Corn-Law League Bazaar held at Covent Garden Theatre (London, 1845). |
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