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
500840Full Name
Elizabeth PontifexGender
FemaleOccupation
No Occupation KnownDate of Birth
1850Place of Origin
Winchester, Hampshire, EnglandDate of Death
2 November 1886Place of Death
Argyll Lodge, New Barnet, Hertfordshire, EnglandAge at Death
36Town Sample
WinchesterGeneration
2Marriage ID
500063Relationships
500838 (Sarah Courtnall : mother), 500090 (Samuel Pontifex : father), 502502 (William Frederick Holroyde : husband), 500839 (Sarah Pontifex : sibling)
