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
1150Full Name
William CouplandOccupation
No Occupation KnownDate of Birth
1838Place of Origin
Leeds, Yorkshire, EnglandDate of Death
1859Place of Death
Sheffield, Yorkshire, EnglandAge at Death
21Town Sample
LeedsGeneration
2Marriage ID
422Relationships
1145 (Sophia Rickard : mother), 1144 (Fountain[e] Coupland : father), 1149 (Fountain Coupland : sibling), 1151 (Fanny Coupland : sibling), 1152 (Sophia Coupland : sibling), 1153 (Charles Coupland : sibling), 1154 (George Frederick Coupland : sibling)
