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WILLIAM EWART

William Ewart was an English Liberal politician. He was born in 1798 at Liverpool and died in 1869. He was elected Liberal MP for Bletchingley in 1828; and was returned for Liverpool in 1830, for Wigan in 1839 and in 1841 for Dumfries Burghs, which he represented until his retirement in 1868. He succeeded in abolishing hanging in chains and in 1850 carried a bill for establishing free libraries.
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