Alexander Somerville (1811-85) was an extraordinary figure,
notorious in his own lifetime for his espousal of political reform.
The youngest child of impoverished farmers from the Scottish border
country, he was the last soldier to be flogged publicly in Britain,
after openly stating that his regiment would not fire on Reform
agitators. In his subsequent journalistic career his stance was
influenced by his concern that violent revolution would inevitably
be crushed and so lead to greater suffering among the working
class, and he therefore supported the less radical reform movement
urged by Cobden. He was a passionate opponent of the Corn Laws, and
The Whistler at the Plough (published in 1852) is a collection of
his letters and essays for the Anti-Corn-Law League, based on
information gathered during his own travels around the country. The
volume also contains his eyewitness account of the Irish famine of
1847.
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