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Senior, Nassau William


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 173

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Senior, Nassau William

Date(s): 1834

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 274 leaves

Name of creator(s): Senior | Nassau William | 1790-1864 | economist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Nassau William Senior (1790-1864) was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford University, gaining an MA in 1815. He became a barrister at Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1819. He held the position of Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, 1825-1830 and 1847-1852, and was a member of the Poor Law Commission in 1833, for which he wrote the report (1834). Senior was a Master in Chancery from 1836 to 1855. A list of his publications may be found in the British Library catalogue.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume containing an account by Nassau William Senior of the Poor Law Amendment Bill conferences, 1834. Includes a transcript of a letter dated 2 Mar 1834 from Senior to Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne. A note by Sir George Nicholls, dated 1851, states 'This very interesting account...was given me by Mr Senior. The detail is valuable and instructive, and I trust Mr Senior will some day make it public. He has given me permission to make use of it in the Work I have commenced, but I purpose doing so in a way that shall not anticipate or interfere with his publishing of the entire, whenever he may determine on doing this'. Senior later gave the manuscript to Nicholls.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript quarto. Bound in calf.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

This manuscript was given by Nassau William Senior to Sir George Nicholls (1781-1865) [in 1851], and contains the bookplate of the latter.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, holds correspondence, journals and papers, 1811-1864 (Ref: Nassau Senior); Trinity College Library, Cambridge University, has miscellaneous correspondence, 1837-1863 (Ref: PSC B28); Bristol University Library contains journals, 1857-1863; Bodleian Library, Oxford University, has copy journals, 1853-1863 (Ref:: MSS Eng hist d 245-62 passim)); University College London contains letters to Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1831-1861 (Brougham papers), and correspondence with Sir Edwin Chadwick, [1832]-1863 (Ref: Chadwick papers); Devon Record Office holds letters to Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue (Ref: 1262Madd2,3,4,5,7,6M); the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, contains letters to Alexander Campbell Fraser, 1854-1855 (Ref: Dep 208); the British Library, London, holds letters to Macvey Napier, 1841-1847 (Ref: Add MSS 34621-26), and correspondence with Henry Edward Fox, 4th Baron Holland, 1851-1855 (Ref: Add MS 52021); Derbyshire Record Office has letters to Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet, 1829-1836 (Ref: D3155 (WH2872).

Publication note:

Used by Sir George Nicholls in A History of the English Poor Law, in connexion with the legislation and other circumstances affecting the condition of the people (London, 1854).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) 2nd edition, and NCA rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names (1997).

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Social welfare

Personal names
Fitzmaurice | Henry | Petty- | 1780-1863 | 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne | statesman x Petty-Fitzmaurice | Henry x Lansdowne | 3rd Marquess of
Nicholls | Sir | George | 1781-1865 | Knight | Poor Law reformer
Senior | Nassau William | 1790-1864 | economist

Corporate names
Poor Law Amendement Bill (1834)

Places