As a youth he moved from Chepstow to nearby Newport, then a stronghold of formative Chartism, joined the Masons' Society in 1839 and that year was seriously injured in a fall of thirty feet whilst working as a stonemason.
He moved from Chepstow to nearby Newport. This was as a youth. A stronghold of formative Chartism, joined the Masons' Society in 1839 whilst. These 1839 whilst were working as a stonemason. That year was seriously injured in a fall of thirty feet whilst working as a stonemason.