Charles Bradlaugh
Politician
One of the most their English atheists of the 19th century. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866.
He left school and worked as an office errand-boy and as a clerk to a coal merchant.
He advocated trade unionism, republicanism, and women's suffrage.
He married the daughter of a working plaster.
He and William Rowe were both well known atheists.