Meet my ancestor John Freeth of Birmingham (1731-1808). He was an interesting man. He was an innkeeper, poet and songwriter, and a major figure of the Enlightenment in Birmingham. He also ran a coffee house (the Leicester Arms, Bell St), where his circle, the Jacobin Club, met. I think I like him already, but I expect he was a bit of a cunt, like the rest of my family. The paintings show the man himself, and himself with the Jacobin Club.
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