BRADLAUGH, Charles (1833-1891):
Free-thinker and follower of Thomas PAINE. Made a name
for himself as a lecturer under the title of "Iconoclast." Became President of
the London SECULAR SOCIETY (1858-1890). From 1860 he ran the National Reformer in defense
of free thinking and was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton in 1880. In his last
years he was actively interested in promoting SOCIAL and political REFORM in India and
attended the Indian National Congress of 1889. He disassociated himself from Annie BESANT
after she became a theosophist. Works: The Bible: What It Is (1861).
