He is best remembered for his successful campaign to repeal the Witchcraft Act 1735.
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From Cardiff he went on to write a doctorate at Lancaster University, working on a thesis looking at the continuation and decline of popular belief in witchcraft and magic from the Witchcraft Act 1735 to the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 (1991-1994).