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On this day 2-9-1798
On This Day
September 2, 1798
Birth of James Coppock, pioneering Liberal election agent
A solicitor by profession and a Radical by inclination, Coppock became one of the country’s most well known election agents having been appointed by the Liberal Party as Secretary of the County Registration Society. There was scarcely a parliamentary election in which he was not involved and he was judged to be one of the founders of centralised political organisation in the period immediately following the Great Reform Act.