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
201435Full Name
William SawyerGender
MaleOccupation
AUTHORS EDITORS JOURNALISTS AND CREATIVE ADVERTISING WORKERSDate of Birth
1828Place of Origin
Brighton, Sussex, EnglandDate of Death
2 Nov 1882Place of Death
9 Pelham Place, Kensington, London, EnglandAge at Death
53Town Sample
BrightonGeneration
1Marriage ID
200490Relationships
201437 (Mary Jane Andrews : wife), 201436 (Sarah Kingston : mother), 201439 (John Sawyer : sibling), 201440 (John Sawyer : father), 201878 (Elizabeth Sawyer : sibling), 201879 (Fanny Sawyer : sibling)