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The Urmston area
Ralph Wright
Ralph Wright lived at Flixton House and was one of the Cheshire and Lancashire magistrates at the time of Peterloo. He was there when Henry Hunt presented himself at the New Bailey Court House on 14 August, two days before Peterloo, to enquire as to whether there were currently any charges against him. He was amongst the magistrates who assembled at Buxton’s house on Mount Street, near to Peter’s Field at 11am on the morning of 16 August and who, as a group, issued a warrant for Hunt’s arrest. He was also there at the New Bailey Court House when Henry Hunt was charged with high treason. He was then one of the witnesses at Hunt’s trial (by which time the charges against Hunt had been reduced).
The Injured
James Wroe of the Observer Office in Manchester published a compilation of Observer articles relating to Peterloo in 1819. This book included a list of those injured on the 16 August 1819, including Ann Johnson from Flixton and Jonah Butterworth of ‘Carrington, near Flixton’.
