The State of the Poor - Volume 3

Sir Frederick Morton Eden (17661809) was an English writer and a pioneer social researcher. Eden studied at Christ Church Oxford and subsequently worked in banking and insurance inheriting a baronetcy from his father who had been the governor of the American province of Maryland in 1784. Arguing that poverty could not be tackled without knowing what it actually meant to be poor this innovative three-volume work is an attempt to define what poverty meant in concrete terms. It is packed with data from across England divided by county and covering factors such as food prices wages diet and mortality rates. Volume 3 presents the second set of reports on living conditions of the poor in the various English counties sorted alphabetically from Surrey to Yorkshire and the Welsh counties. A study of Scotland''s poor is included in an appendix.