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
35Full Name
Peter ChesserGender
MaleOccupation
CIVIL ENGINEERSDate of Birth
1805Place of Origin
Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, ScotlandDate of Death
1858Place of Death
unknownAge at Death
53Town Sample
GreenockGeneration
1Marriage ID
12Relationships
38 (Jane Lyle : wife), 39 (Peter Andrew Chesser : child), 3751 (Jane Chesser : child), 3756 (Andrew Chesser : father), 3750 (Elizabeth Davison : daughter-in-law), 3752 (Jeannie Chesser : granddaughter), 3753 (Mary Baxter Chesser : granddaughter), 3754 (George Monteath : grandson-in-law)