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WILLIAM THOMAS THORNTON (1813-188o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 881 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:THOMAS See also:THORNTON (1813-188o)  , See also:English economist, was See also:born at Burnham, See also:Buckinghamshire, on the 14th of See also:February 1813 . In 1836 he obtained a clerkship in the See also:London See also:house of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company . In 1858 he became secretary for public See also:works in the India See also:office, a See also:post which he held till his See also:death . He was created a C.B. in 1873 . His works include Over-See also:population and its Remedy (1846), in which he put forward a See also:plan for colonizing Irish wastes by Irish peasants; A Plea for See also:Peasant Proprietors (1848), in which his views were See also:developed in greater detail; On Labour (1869); and Old-fashioned See also:Ethics and Commonsense See also:Metaphysics, a See also:volume of essays, published in 1873 .

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