Charles Mowbray
Charles Wilfred Mowbray (1857 – December 1910) was an English
anarcho-communist agitator, tailor, trade unionist and public speaker. Mowbray was an active orator and agitator in the
Labour Emancipation League, and then the
Socialist League, becoming the publisher of the Socialist League's newspaper
''Commonweal'' in 1890. At this time he began describing himself as an anarcho-communist. He was arrested in 1892 and charged with conspiracy to murder in a high-profile trial but was acquitted. At this time he reportedly worked as a police informant. From 1894 he lived and worked in the United States where he went on speaker tours before being deported in the wake of the assassination of
President McKinley. Back in England he moved away from anarchism and began lecturing on
tariff reform (protectionism) and was funded by the
National Union of Conservative Associations.
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