Walter Freer (born c. 1846) was a Scottish Liberal Party worker. He was the son of a notable Chartist and has been described as a "staunch Gladstonian".[1] He was also a power-loom tenter and temperance worker.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ E. F. Biagini, Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform. Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860-1880 (Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 378, n. 43.
  2. ↑ "Who's Who in Glasgow in 1909: WALTER FREER". gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk.

Further reading

  • Walter Freer, My Life and Memories (Glasgow: Civic Press, 1929).
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