Person    | Male  Born 1800  Died 1890

Sir Edwin Chadwick

Born Lancashire but brought up in London. A friend of Jeremy Bentham, Bentham dying in his arms. Chadwick's major achievement was the 1842 publication of the Poor Law Commissioners' "Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Poor". A man of tonsorial elegance, we think you will agree.

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