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unusual facts about Friends of the People Society



Nunhead Cemetery

There is an obelisk, the "Scottish Political Martyrs Memorial", the second monument (the other is in Edinburgh) dedicated to the leaders of the Friends of the People Society, popularly called the Scottish Martyrs, including Thomas Muir, Maurice Margarot, and Thomas Fyshe Palmer, who were transported to Australia in 1794.


see also

Thomas Muir

Thomas Muir of Huntershill (1765–1799), (political reformer) leader of the Scottish "Friends of the People Society"