Plaque unveiled at former home of anti-slavery campaigner
A plaque has been put up at the former home of a man who campaigned against the slave trade.
Some of Samuel Bowly's distant relatives were in Gloucester to witness the unveiling.
The unveiling coincides with anti-slavery day.
Bowly was a Quaker and although slavery had been outlawed by 1840 when he took part in the world anti-slavery convention, he campaigned hard against slavery in the rest of the world.
He also campaigned for temperance. He signed a pledge of total abstinence from drink in 1835 and worked to expose the dangers of alcohol all his life.
His great great grandson Anthony Barlow says his achievements were immense.
Bowly died in Gloucester in 1884 and at his funeral the Gloucester Cathedral bells tolled.
Now his name on the house he once lived in is a permanent reminder of his achievements.
A timeline of Samuel Bowly's key dates:
1802 - Samuel Bowly is born in Cirencester
1827 - He marries Jane Dearman Shipley
1837 Bowly leads deputation to Downing Street, where they discuss cruelty shown towards slaves with the Prime Minister
1838 Bowly starts Central Negro Emancipation Committee and they get bill for the abolishment of slavery introduced into the House of Commons (which fails)
1840 - Bowly attends International Anti-Slavery Convention
1873 - Bowly remarries in Devizes to Louisa Cotterell
1884 - Bowly dies. Gloucester Cathedral bells toll at his funeral