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The people’s revenge on the man behind Peterloo
KEITH FLETT relates what happened to William Hulton, the man who sent the Yeomanry on horseback to cut down the suffrage marches on St Peter's Field
The charge of the Yeomanry left 15 marchers dead
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WILLIAM HULTON (1787-1864) is not a name that features significantly in British history, he deserves more recognition, as does what eventually happened to the vast estate he owned on the edge of what is now Greater Manchester.
It’s thought that the Hulton family may have held the land since as early as 989AD, which made it until very recently the longest period in which a piece of land had been held by a single family in British history.
Hulton came into his inheritance in 1808 aged 21 and married Maria who bore him 13 children.
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