Samuel Etheridge
was a well-known radical and printer by trade and also the secretary
of the Working Men's Association. He was tried at Monmouth with
John Frost, William Jones and Zephaniah Williams and others
for treason and sedition in connection with the Chartist riots
at Newport on 4th November 1839. Etheridge was aquitted but
Frost, Jones and Williams were found guilty and transported.