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2 unusual facts about Aspland


Aspland

Robert Brook Aspland (1805 – 1869), English Unitarian minister and editor; son of the above

Robert Aspland (1782 – 1845), English Unitarian minister, editor and activist


Robert Aspland

On his recovery in 1819, he brought about the formation of the Association for protecting the Civil Rights of Unitarians; and that being the year of the conviction of Richard Carlile for publishing Tom Paine's The Age of Reason, Aspland was engaged in controversy on the subject in the columns of The Times.


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