O’Connor, Feargus (1794-1855), became a leader of the Chartist movement, a national campaign for social and political reform in the United Kingdom in the early 1800’s (see Chartism ). Feargus Edward O’Connor was born on July 18, 1794, in Connorville, County Cork, Ireland. He was elected to the British Parliament in 1832. In 1837, he began publishing the Northern Star, a radical Chartist newspaper. O’Connor became impatient with the moderate Chartist leaders, and in 1841, he broke away and founded the National Charter Association. He died in London on Aug. 30, 1855.
