Thursday, 29 August 2013
247 John Norris
Constituency : Abingdon 1857-65
John was a magistrate and a member of the London City Corporation.
John spoke in favour of Gladstone's abolition of the paper duties in 1860 -"it is a tax that presses heavily on the necessary school-books and cheap literature which reaches the labouring man and his children while it lets the luxuries of the rich all but entirely escape." It was the first of a string of speeches on the subject including one in 1864 criticising Cobden for neglecting the papermakers' interests in the Anglo-French commercial treaty.
He died in 1870 aged 61.
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