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'''Michael Thomas Sadler''' ([[January 3]], [[1780]] - [[July 29]], [[1835]]) British radical politician, philanthropic businessman, and leader of the factory reform movement in England, who was a forerunner of the reformers from the working class whose activities (from the late 1830s) became known as [[Chartism]]. 

(contracted; show full)Commons to John Marshall (1765-1845), a Leeds flax-spinning magnate. Sadler's report was published in January 1833. The information in the report shocked the British public and Parliament came under increasing pressure to protect the children working in factories. After the publication of the report, his health failed, and he took no further part in public affairs. Retiring in 1834 to [[Belfast]], where his firm had linen works, he died at [[New Lodge, Ireland|New Lodge]] on [[July 29]], [[1835]].

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  External links  ==
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp03937 Portraits at the British National Portrait Gallery]

==  Reference  s==
* [http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/adw03/peel/people/sadlerbg.htm Detialed biography from the Dictionary of National Biography]
* {{cite book|author=Sadler, Michael Thomas|year=1971|title=The Law of Population: A treatise in six books, in disproof of the superfecundity of human beings and developing the real principle of their increase|publisher= Irish University Press|id=ISBN 0716515792}}
* {{cite book|author=Seeley, Robert Benton|year=1842|title=Memoirs of the life and writings of Michael Thomas Sadler, Esq|publisher= R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside|id=ISBN 1855067803}}

[[Category:1780 births|Sadler, Michael Thomas]]
[[Category:1835 deaths|Sadler, Michael Thomas]]
[[Category:Natives of Derbyshire|Sadler, Michael Thomas]]
[[Category:English philanthropists|Sadler, Michael Thomas]]
[[Category:British MPs|Sadler, Michael Thomas]]


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