Charles Hindley (other)
Charles Hindley may refer to: *Charles Hindley (politician) (1796–1857), Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England *Charles Hindley (jockey) Charles Hindley was an 18th-century British Thoroughbred jockey, who won three of the first six runnings of the Derby, the country's most prestigious horse race. These winners were Young Eclipse (1781), Saltram (1783) and Aimwell (1785). He ...

Charles Hindley (politician)
Charles Hindley (25 June 1796 – 1 December 1857) was an English cotton mill-owner and Radical politician who sat as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne (UK Parliament constituency), Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire from 1835 until his death in 1857. He was active in the Factory Reform movement, in the opposition to the New Poor Law, and in opposition to state involvement in religious and educational matters, but was rarely prominent in them, being more sought after as a chairman of meetings than as a speaker at them, and too inclined to moderation and compromise to be accepted as a reliable leader. He was the first member of the Moravian Church to be a British member of parliament. portraitof Hindley is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London Family life Hindley was the third son of Ignatius (a considerable calico and muslin manufacturer) and Mary Hindley (maiden name Molly Ambler); like them he was a me ...
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