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Thomas Davison

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For the English architect, architectural illustrator and journalist, seeThomas Raffles Davison.

Thomas Davison (1794 – 1826) was a Britishradical journalist and printer-publisher of a series of journals, includingMedusa, theLondon Alfred, theDeist's Magazine, as well as the James Griffin-editedCap of Liberty and the Robert Shorter-editedTheological Comet.

Known for hisrepublican andDeist views, Davison actively supportedRichard Carlile in his battle with the British establishment of the time, which resulted in Carlile's imprisonment on charges ofblasphemous libel in October 1819.

Davison's publication of material critical of theBible in theDeist's Magazine resulted in his own prosecution.^[1] Found guilty of blasphemy like Carlile after his trial in October 1820, Davison was fined£100 and imprisoned for two years. Reduced topoverty in his last years, he eked out a living as abookseller following his release in 1822.^[2]

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^Robertson, J. M. (2006).A History of Free Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing Co. p. 63.ISBN 978-1-4286-5906-3.
^"Davison, Thomas (1794 - 1826)" (2009). In Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor (Editors),Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland (p. 163). Gent and London: Academia Press and the British Library.ISBN 978-90-382-1340-8.

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