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  2. 1831 Bristol riots - Wikipedia

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    Queen Square on the Night of 30 October 1831, a contemporary depiction of the riots The 3rd Dragoon Guards act to suppress the riots. The 1831 Bristol riots took place on 29–31 October 1831 and were part of the 1831 reform riots in England.

  3. Queen Square, Bristol - Wikipedia

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    Queen Square is a 2.4 hectares (5.9 acres) Georgian square in the centre of Bristol, England. [1] Following the 1831 riot, Queen Square declined through the latter part of the 19th century, was threatened with a main line railway station, but then bisected by a dual carriageway in the 1930s.

  4. Bristol riots - Wikipedia

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    The 3rd Dragoon Guards suppressing the 1831 Bristol riots. The Bristol Riots of 1831 took place after the House of Lords rejected the second Reform Bill, which aimed to get rid of some of the rotten boroughs and give Britain's fast growing industrial towns such as Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford and Leeds greater representation in the House of Commons.

  5. 1831 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    29–31 October – 1831 Bristol riots ("Queen Square riots") in Bristol, in connection with the Great Reform Act controversy: 100 city centre properties are destroyed (including the Bishop's palace), at least 120 are estimated to have been killed, 31 of the rioters will be sentenced to death and a colonel facing court-martial for failure to ...

  6. Mansion House, Bristol - Wikipedia

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    The first mansion house in Bristol was erected in Queen Square in 1783. [1] A carriage carrying the anti-reform judge Charles Wetherell and the mayor Charles Pinney was attacked on 29 October 1831 and they sought refuge in the mansion house. [2]

  7. Nathaniel Wraxall - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Queen Square, Bristol, the son of a Bristol merchant, Nathaniel Wraxall, and his wife Anne, great-niece of Sir James Thornhill, the painter.He entered the employment of the East India Company in 1769, and served as judge-advocate and paymaster during the expeditions against Gujarat and Bharuch in 1771.

  8. History of Bristol - Wikipedia

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    The Bristol Riots of 1831 took place after the House of Lords rejected the second Reform Bill. Local magistrate Sir Charles Wetherall, a strong opponent of the Bill, visited Bristol to open the new Assize Courts and an angry mob chased him to the Mansion House in Queen Square. [100]

  9. 1831 - Wikipedia

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    October 29 – The 1831 Bristol riots ("Queen Square riots") in Bristol (England) begin, in connection with the Great Reform Bill controversy. Quelled by the authorities and the military on October 31, 100 city centre properties are destroyed, at least 120 are estimated to have been killed, 31 of the rioters will be sentenced to death and a ...