desired parliamentary reform, and Rogers was averse to the landed nobility, they were not believers in democracy in the modern sense. Price adopted John Horne Tooke as a close ally from this time, but Rogers distrusted him. With Sir Thomas Hallifax, Rogers stood in the 1780 general election as parliamentary candidate for Coventry, a two-member constituency. Edward Roe Yeo and John Baker Holroyd, their opponents, were supporters of the North administration, while Hallifax and Rogers had the backing of the Coventry corporation. Hallifax had a political connection with Coventry through the bank Vere, Glyn & Hallifax of which he was a founder, with Sir Richard Glyn. Glyn had died in 1773, while sitting as member of parliament for Coventry. In fact, though, Glyn had been an opponent of Coventry corporation. Opponents dubbed Rogers the "Dismal Squire", to Hallifax's "Dumb Knight". The first poll held was marred by continual rioting around the polling booth, and was abandoned after eight days without a significant proportion of potential votes cast. In the second poll, held over 24 days and ending 29 December, Hallifax and Rogers were declared narrow winners. The result was overturned in parliament on 27 February 1781. Later life Rogers was on the founding committee of the New College at Hackney in 1786. In 1787 an anonymous pamphlet Salutary Admonitions attacking the college was addressed to Rogers; David Williams is now identified as its author. In 1791 Rogers was chairing the college's committee. The committee contained ten members of the Revolution Society, and held a dinner for the radical Tom Paine. In 1790, Rogers was, according to Price, a prime mover with friends of the dinner held at the Crown and Anchor, Strand, to celebrate the first Bastille Day anniversary, coinciding with the Fête de la Fédération held in France. It was reported that 600 people attended, with cockades. Rogers in 1792 was a signatory to a resolution of the Society of the Friends of the People on political reform. Family Rogers married in 1760 Mary Radford, daughter of Daniel Radford. They had eight children, the third son being the poet Samuel Rogers. Of the children, seven survived their father: Daniel Rogers (died 1829) lived at "The Hill", Amblecote, and then at Wassell Grove, parish of Hagley. He was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge in 1779, and to Lincoln's Inn in 1783. He married Martha Bowles, daughter of Sampson Bowles, and