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
1891Full Name
Robert LaycockGender
MaleOccupation
HOSIERS HABERDASHERSDate of Birth
1856Place of Origin
Bramley, Yorkshire, EnglandDate of Death
1922-11-22Place of Death
Bradford, Yorkshire, EnglandAge at Death
66Town Sample
LeedsGeneration
2Marriage ID
691Relationships
1885 (Robert Laycock : father), 1887 (Elizabeth Husler : mother), 1893 (Alfred Laycock : sibling), 1892 (John Laycock : sibling), 1890 (Joseph Husler Laycock : sibling), 1903 (Florence Emily Marshall : wife), 2877 (Elizabeth Laycock : sibling), 4127 (Kate Laycock : sibling)