He was born in Birmingham to John and Sarah Bedford, and followed his father into the iron trade to become a japanner in 1748.
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As well as founding the Uxbridge Chartist branch John Bedford Leno also daringly established the Eton branch in Windsor which was the home of Queen Victoria.