Hamer Stansfeld

Hamer Stansfeld ( ; 17 February 1797 – 1865) was a British merchant and Radical and Liberal politician who represented Leeds as Mayor (1843–44) and Alderman (from 1835), and led the development of the first custom-built hydropathic hotel, the Ben Rhydding Hydro (1844).

Prominent in the Anti-Corn Law League and as a proponent of the extension of the electoral franchise and state-funded education, he was also known for his writings on currency and money supply and for a dispute, played out in the local press, with the High Churchman and Tractarian Walter Hook, Vicar of Leeds. Provided by Wikipedia
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    A remedy for monetary panics and free trade in currency suggested in a brief view of the currency question

    A remedy for monetary panics and free trade in currency suggested in a brief view of the currency question by Stansfeld, Hamer

    Published 1849
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    Monopoly and machinery which is the real enemy of the working classes?

    Monopoly and machinery which is the real enemy of the working classes? by Stansfeld, Hamer

    Published 1841
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    Reasons for thinking that free trade will raise the rent of land as well as the profit of capital and the wages of labour and that it would be foolish in the landlords to incur the odium of enacting a corn law to protect the value of their property, when the effect will be the reverse, as any duty which they impose on foreign produce falls ultimately with increased pressure on their own

    Reasons for thinking that free trade will raise the rent of land as well as the profit of capital and the wages of labour and that it would be foolish in the landlords to incur the... by Stansfeld, Hamer

    Published 1822
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    Compensation not emigration the one thing needful justice, and not charity, what we want

    Compensation not emigration the one thing needful justice, and not charity, what we want by Stansfeld, Hamer

    Published 1842
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