HomecomingReturn to Tolpuddle
The Enigmatic Loner
Farms in Essex
The Chartist Cause
George Loveless
James BrineJames Hammett
James Hammett
Born at the
end of 1811, married with a baby son when arrested. He was an outsider:
unlike the others, he never wrote about his experiences, had a criminal
record and was not a Methodist. He alone stayed in Tolpuddle, as a builder's
labourer. He was not at the fateful initiation, and may have accepted
arrest on behalf of his newly-married brother, John, who was present and
whose wife was about to give birth.Hammett had been imprisoned in 1829
for allegedly stealing some pieces of iron. In Australia, he was charged
with.
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