Anti-Corn Law League

noun

1. an organization founded in 1839 by Richard Cobden and John Bright to oppose the Corn Laws, which were repealed in 1846

Example Sentences

We know about the petitioning campaign organised by the Anti-Corn Law League in the 1840s – the Brexit issue of the day that split the Tory party permanently, as free-traders battled with those who wanted to keep up tariffs against imports of foreign grain.

From The Guardian

The world’s first industrial city, Victorian Manchester was a hotbed of radical ideas, home to Anti-Corn Law League agitators and rioting Chartists.

From The Guardian

Want of food in Ireland when the potato crop failed was the argument which converted Sir Robert Peel; but the desire of selling cotton and woollen fabrics, or hardware, to those whose “chief coin” was wheat, gave an earlier impetus to the Anti-Corn Law League.

From Project Gutenberg

In the meantime he assisted Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League in 1838. 

From Project Gutenberg

He entered with ardour into the struggle for free trade, and obtained in 1842 the prize offered by the Anti-Corn Law League for the best essay on “Agriculture and the Corn Laws.”

From Project Gutenberg