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[[Image:Michael Thomas Sadler.jpg|thumb|right|Michael Thomas Sadler]]
'''Michael Thomas Sadler''' ([[January 3]], [[1780]] - [[July 29]], [[1835]]) was a [[United Kingdom|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]]. 

Born at [http://www.derbyshireuk.net/snelston.html Snelston], [[Derbyshire]], while he was still young he assisted the [[Methodism|Methodist movement]]. In 1800, he moved to [[Leeds]], where he became an importer of Irish [[Linen|linens]]. He was [[Tory]] [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Newark-on-Trent|Newark]], 1829 and 1830, and for [[Aldborough, North Yorkshire]] 1831- to 1832. He moved unsuccessfully for the establishment of poor law in Ireland, and moved resolution for improving the living conditions of the agricultural poor in England, in 1831. ⏎
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On March 16, 1832, Sadler introduced a Bill in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] that proposed limiting the hours of all persons under the age of 18 to ten hours a day. Parliament was unwilling to pass Sadler's bill, but in April 1832 it was agreed that there should be another parliamentary enquiry into child labour. Sadler was made chairman, and for the next three months, the parliamentary committee interviewed 48 people who had worked in textile factories as children. ⏎
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On July 9, Sadler discovered that at least six of these workers had been fired for giving evidence to the parliamentary committee. Sadler announced that this victimisation meant that he could no longer ask factory workers to be interviewed. He now concentrated on interviewing doctors who had experience treating people who worked in textile factories. In the 1832 General Election, Sadler lost his seat in the House of Commons to John Marshall (1765-1845), a Leeds flax-spinning magnate. ⏎
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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]].

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

==References==
* [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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