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John Revans was secretary to the English Poor Law Commission
[1] and the
Royal Commission on the Poorer Classes in Ireland 1833.
[2] In 1836, he was appointed assistant commissioner of the
Poor Laws.
[3] In the 1840s he conducted an examination of the
Chartist land settlements for the
Poor Law Commissioners.
[4]
He was described as a "Benthamite radical".
[5]
Selected publications
- Observations on the timber trade. Richardson, 1831.
[6]
- Remarks on the navigation laws. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1831.
- Evils of the state of Ireland, their causes, and their remedy; a poor law. 1836.
[7]
[8]
References
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"Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons: Education; 1". 1836. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
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^ Houston, R. (2 July 2014).
Peasant Petitions: Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates ... - Rab Houston.
ISBN
9781137394095. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
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"Bulletins and Other State Intelligence". 1836. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
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Armytage, W.H.G., (1961) Heavens below: Utopian experiments in England 1560-1960. London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961. p. 232.
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^ Cobden, Richard; Morgan, Simon (2007).
The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume III: 1854-1859 - Richard Cobden, Anthony Howe, Simon Morgan.
ISBN
9780199211975. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
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"The Westminster Review". 1837. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
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The Metropolitan. James Cochrane. 1836. p.
15. Retrieved 25 November 2015 – via
Internet Archive.
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^ Ciosáin, Niall (February 2014).
Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850: A New Reading of the Poor Inquiry - Niall Ó Ciosáin. OUP Oxford.
ISBN
9780199679386. Retrieved 25 November 2015.