Benthamite
31Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832 — The 1832 Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws was a group set up to decide how to change the system of Poor Law systems in Britain. The group was made up of Nassau Senior, a professor from Oxford University who was against the… …
32Roland Wilson — Sir Roland Knyvet Wilson (27 August, 1840 29 October, 1919) was an English academic and political writer.Wilson was educated at Eton and King s College, Cambridge. In 1867 he was a barrister and then ventured into journalism, working for the… …
33Benthamism — Benthamic /ben tham ik, tam /, adj. Benthamite /ben theuh muyt , teuh /, n. /ben theuh miz euhm, teuh /, n. the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. [1820 30; BENTHAM + ISM] * * * …
34Beccaria, Cesare — born March 15, 1738, Milan died Nov. 28, 1794, Milan Italian criminologist and economist. He became an international celebrity in 1764 with the publication of Crime and Punishment, the first systematic statement of principles governing criminal… …
35Dickens, Charles — ▪ British novelist Introduction in full Charles John Huffam Dickens born Feb. 7, 1812, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Eng. died June 9, 1870, Gad s Hill, near Chatham, Kent English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His …
36Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
37Bentham — noun a) derived from any of several places. b) , English philosopher and social reformer. See Also: Benthamism, Benthamite …
38Opposition to the Poor Laws — Both the Elizabethan Poor Law and the Poor Law Amendment Act attracted a great deal of opposition from a wide range of people in society, from paupers and workers; to the landed gentry and academics. Likewise, the reasons that people opposed the… …
39English Poor Laws — Poor Law redirects here. For the Poor Law systems of Scotland and Ireland, see Scottish Poor Laws and Irish Poor Laws. Although many deterrent workhouses developed in the period after the New Poor Law, some had already been built under the… …
40Mill, John Stuart — (1806–1873) English philosopher and economist, and the most influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. As the son of James Mill, John Stuart was given an intensive private education, in which he began Greek at the age of three, and Latin… …
