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
354Full Name
John SawtellGender
MaleOccupation
MERCHANT SERVICE; SEAMAN-NAVIGATING DEPARTMENTDate of Birth
Nov 1840Place of Origin
Crewkerne, Somerset, EnglandDate of Death
17 Feb 1881Place of Death
sea, sea, SeaAge at Death
40Town Sample
GreenockGeneration
2Marriage ID
110Relationships
353 (Margaret Wilson Mann : wife), 3834 (Maggie Sawtell : child), 3835 ([Bessie] Sarah Elizabeth Talbot Sawtell : child), 3866 (John Alexander Sawtell : child), 3867 (Sarah Talbot : mother), 3868 (John Sawtell : father)
