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He was born at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, on the 14th of February 1813, the son of the merchant Thomas Thornton and Sophie Zohrab.
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A Plea for Peasant Proprietors: With the Outlines of a Plan for Their Establishment in Ireland (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Plea for Peasant Proprietors With the Outlines of a Plan for Their Establishment in Ireland This work appeared originally in 1848 and has been long out of print Some years ago while the discussions which terminated in the passing of the Irish Landlord and Tenant Act were at their height it came greatly into request and I was strongly urged by the late Mr Mill and other friends to republish it but to do so required an amount of preliminary labour for which I neither then had nor have since until recently been able to find leisure For the last few months however my spare half hours have been occupied with little else About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at www forgottenbooks com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses state of the art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications
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Over-Population, and Its Remedy: Or, an Inquiry Into the Extent and Causes of the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the British Islands, and Into the Means of Remedying It
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Labour and Its Claims
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William Thomas Thornton
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Thornton was educated at the Moravian settlement at Ockbrook in Derbyshire.
Career
In 1836 he obtained a clerkship in the London house of the East India Company. In 1858 he became secretary for public works in the India office, a post which he held till his death. He was created a C. B. in 1873. His works include Over-population and its Remedy (1846), in which he put forward a plan for colonizing Irish wastes by Irish peasants; A Plea for Peasant Proprietors (1848), in which his views were developed in greater detail; On Labour (1869); and Old-fashioned Ethics and Commonsense Metaphysics, a volume of essays, published in 1873.
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A Plea for Peasant Proprietors: With the Outlines of a Plan for Their Establishment in Ireland (Classic Reprint)
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Over-Population, and Its Remedy: Or, an Inquiry Into the Extent and Causes of the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the British Islands, and Into the Means of Remedying It
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
- Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications
- Labour and Its Claims
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A Plea for Peasant Proprietors: With the Outlines of a Plan for Their Establishment in Ireland (Classic Reprint)
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