Wales glossary
Wales glossary
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Site: Open Learning
Course: Welsh history and its sources (CYMRU_1)
Glossary: Wales glossary
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Frost, John(1784–1877). From Newport, Monmouthshire. Became a successful local businessman and Newport magistrate, although he supported the Chartist movement (see Chartism). In 1839 he was a leader of the Chartist march to Newport (see Newport Rising), as a result of which he was tried for treason. After conviction, his death sentence was commuted to transportation for life, and he was sent to Tasmania. In 1856 he was pardoned, and returned to Britain to live in Bristol, where he continued to advocate parliamentary reform until his death in 1877. |