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Born in Sutton-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, the son of agricultural workers, Harry Snell was educated at his local village school before beginning work as a farm hand at the age of eight. He worked full-time from the age of ten and became an indoor servant at the farm aged twelve. Dissatisfied with this work, Snell left and travelled around the county, taking a variety of jobs including work as a groom and ferryman at an inn on the river Trent and as a french-polisher in Nottingham. During long periods of unemployment he occupied himself with extensive reading, and was particularly influenced by the writing of Henry GeorgeHenry George ( September 2, 1839 October 29, 1897) was an American political economist, and the most influential proponent of the " Single Tax" on land. His Life Born in Philadelphia, George went to sea at age 16 before eventually settling in California.. Inspired by Charles BradlaughCharles Bradlaugh ( 26 September 1833 30 January 1891) was a political activist and one of the most famous English atheists of the 19th century. Early life Born into poverty at Hoxton, London, the son of a solicitor's clerk, he worked in turn as an office and the cause of secularismThis article concerns secularism the exclusion of religion and supernatural beliefs. For other forms of being secular and perspective on the terminology underlying the word "secularism", see secularity. Secularism means: in philosophy, the belief that one in Nottingham 1881Events January 16- 24 ? Siege of Geok Tepe ? Russian troops under general Skobeleff defeat Turkomans January 25 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company February 5 Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated. February 13 First issu, he joined the National Secular SocietyThe National Secular Society is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes secularism. It was founded by Charles Bradlaugh in 1866. External links .. He rejected the austere and literalist Anglicanism of his up-bringing, but retained some religious faith and decided to join the Unitarian Church, impressed by its scientific approach to Christian doctrine and its progressive and tolerant values.
A Unitarian teacher, John Kentish-White, introduced Snell to the works of Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThis page is about the nineteenth century English poet. For the twentieth century classical composer, see Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( October 21, 1772- July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher and, along with his. Through acquaintances made in the Unitarian movement, Snell was able to find a job in London as a clerk at the offices of the Midland Institute for the Blind. Here he continued his self-education at the reference library of University College, London, being influenced by the writings of Thomas Paine, William Morris, John Ruskin and John Stuart Mill. After hearing Annie Besant address a meeting of the Secular Society on the subject of socialism, Snell joined the Social Democratic Federation. He worked on John Burns' campaign for Parliament in 1885, and began to address public meetings himself, appearing alongside the likes of Henry Hyndman, Tom Mann, Eleanor Marx and Ben Tillett . He was active in supporting the Bryant and May match factory strike and the London docks strike of 1889 .