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Families |
Income per Family |
Aggregate Income |
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£ |
£000 |
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Aristocracy |
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Sovereign |
1 |
200,000 |
200 |
|
Peers |
287 |
8,000 |
2,296 |
|
Bishops |
26 |
4,000 |
104 |
|
Baronets |
540 |
3,000 |
1,620 |
|
Knights |
350 |
1,500 |
525 |
|
Esquires |
6,000 |
1,500 |
9,000 |
|
Gentlemen |
20,000 |
700 |
14,000 |
|
Fundholders (included above) |
--- |
--- |
5,056 |
|
Subtotal |
27,204 |
--- |
32,801 |
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Middle Ranks-- Agriculture |
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Freeholders (1) |
40,000 |
200 |
8,000 |
|
Freeholders (2) |
120,000 |
90 |
10,800 |
|
Farmers |
160,000 |
120 |
19,200 |
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Industry & Commerce |
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Merchants (1) |
2,000 |
2,600 |
5,200 |
|
Merchants (2) |
13,000 |
800 |
10,400 |
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Manufacturers |
25,000 |
800 |
20,000 |
|
Warehousemen |
500 |
800 |
400 |
|
Shipbuilders |
300 |
700 |
210 |
|
Shipowners |
5,000 |
500 |
2,500 |
|
Surveyors, Engineers |
5,000 |
200 |
1,000 |
|
Tailors, etc. |
25,000 |
150 |
3,750 |
|
Shopkeepers, etc. |
74,500 |
150 |
11,175 |
|
Innkeepers |
50,000 |
100 |
5,000 |
|
Clerks, shopmen |
30,000 |
75 |
6,750 |
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Professions |
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Civil Offices (1) |
2,000 |
800 |
1,600 |
|
Civil Offices (2) |
10,500 |
200 |
2,100 |
|
Law |
11,000 |
359 |
3,850 |
|
Clergy (1) |
1,000 |
500 |
500 |
|
Clergy (2) |
10,000 |
120 |
1,200 |
|
Dissenting Clergy |
2,500 |
120 |
300 |
|
Arts, Sciences |
16,300 |
260 |
4,238 |
|
Education (1) |
500 |
600 |
300 |
|
Education |
20,000 |
150 |
3,000 |
|
Naval Officers |
3,000 |
149 |
1,043 |
|
Army Officers |
5,000 |
139 |
1,816 |
|
Half-Pay Officers |
2,000 |
45 |
181 |
|
Theatrical |
500 |
200 |
100 |
|
Lunatic Keepers |
40 |
500 |
20 |
|
Subtotal |
634,640 |
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124,633 |
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Lower Orders |
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Artisans |
445,726 |
55 |
24,515 |
|
Hawkers, Pedlars |
800 |
40 |
32 |
|
Mines, Canals |
40,000 |
40 |
1,600 |
|
Seaman, Common |
67,099 |
40 |
2,684* |
|
Seamen, Naval |
38,175 |
38 |
1,451* |
|
Soldiers |
50,000 |
29 |
1,450* |
|
Labourers |
340,000 |
31 |
10,540 |
|
Lunatics |
(2,500)** |
30 |
75 |
|
Debtors |
2,000 |
25 |
50 |
|
Pensioners (forces) |
30,500 |
20 |
610 |
|
Paupers, Cottagers |
260,179 |
(16.4) |
6,869 |
|
Vagrants |
74,000*** |
10 |
2,220 |
|
Subtotal |
1,346,479 |
52,096 |
|
|
Grand Total |
2,008,479 |
209,530 |
|
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Summary: |
Families % |
Income % |
|
|
Aristocracy |
1.4 |
15.7 |
|
|
Middle Ranks |
31.6 |
59.4 |
|
|
Lower Orders |
67.0 |
24.9 |
|
|
Total |
100.0 |
100.0 |
*"Original figures corrected by recalculating from average income of group (and corresponding adjustments made to totals)."
**"Lunatics assumed to be individuals from other families and excluded from family total."
***"222,000 vagrants also treated as individuals and excluded from family totals by… Colquhoun, but here allowed one family to three vagrants and included in totals."
SOURCE:
Colquhoun, Patrick. A Treatise on Indigence. 1806. From: Perkin, Harold. Origins of Modern English Society. London : Ark, 1986.
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