Friends of the People, an association formed in 1792 in London to obtain parliamentary reform by constitutional means. Among its members were Lords Lauderdale, Kinnaird, John Russell, and Edward Fitzgerald, and such commoners as Grey, Mackintosh, Malcolm Laing, Dudley North, Erskine, Samuel Rogers, and Sheridan.
Friends of the People
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 8
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