The National Association for the Protection of British Industry and Capital was founded in May 1849 by the English shipbuilder and politician George Frederick Young as a pressure group advocating protectionism.[1] The historian Anthony Howe has written that Young "was ready to woo earls, dukes, farmers, seamen, and the Chartist National Association of Organised Trades. He forced Benjamin Disraeli into a defensive position (over his apparently dwindling support for protection) and became for a time a vital force in the protectionist politics of the late 1840s and early 1850s".[1]
Notes
edit- ^ a b A. C. Howe, ‘Young, George Frederick (1791–1870)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 28 Dec 2013.
References
edit- A. C. Howe, ‘Young, George Frederick (1791–1870)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 28 Dec 2013.
Further reading
edit- S. Palmer, Politics, Shipping and the Repeal of Navigation Laws (1990).