This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Funding
The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Economic and Social Research Council
Find out more...History
Person ID
102472Full Name
William Edward WillisGender
MaleOccupation
CARPENTER, JOINERDate of Birth
1843Place of Origin
Birmingham, Warwickshire, EnglandDate of Death
26 Feb 1898Place of Death
The Benhams, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, EnglandAge at Death
55Town Sample
Merthyr TydfilGeneration
2Marriage ID
100785Relationships
102473 (Elizabeth Florence Harlow : wife), 102471 (Blankley Harlow Willis : child), 102476 (Stuart Willis : child), 102475 (William Percy Willis : child)
