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
200311Full Name
George Mowlem BurtGender
MaleOccupation
CIVIL ENGINEERSDate of Birth
10 Jan 1884Place of Origin
London, Middlesex, EnglandDate of Death
1964-09-01Place of Death
Comforts Place, Lingfield, Surrey, EnglandAge at Death
80Town Sample
BrightonGeneration
3Marriage ID
200683Relationships
202029 (Emily Stewart Arbon : mother), 202028 (George Burt : father), 202025 (Olave Charlotte Sortain Hulbert : wife), 202033 (Stewart John Burt : sibling)
