EDWARD EAGER, The Champion of Rights.
With References, and a Bibliography of Emancipists sources. Pp. [194], typescript, on rectos only, numbered in several individual sections, index; post 4to; bound in half black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, light brown cloth boards; a couple of minor inked annotations; n.p., n.d.[1962?]. *Unpublished? The author was Assistant Professor of History at Central Washington State College. Edward Eagar (1787-1866) was transported to Australia for life, arriving in Sydney in 1811. He was conditionally pardoned by Governor Macquarie in 1813, and received an absolute pardon in 1818. Eager then became a leading voice in the emancipist cause. In 1819 he was secretary of the committee which drew up the colonists' petition to the Prince Regent, and three years later, he and Dr William Redfern were appointed to take the 1821 petition of the emancipists to London. Edward Eager was also a pioneer of the Methodist Church in Australia, and helped to found the Bank of New South Wales and the Benevolent Society. Item #163625
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