WILLIAM THOMAS THORNTON (1813-188o)
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V26,
Page 881
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:- WILLIAM
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WILLIAM See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
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- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
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 (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
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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