Patrick Colquhoun

merchant, statistician, magistrate, river police (1745-1820)

Born	1745
Died	1820

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A treatise on the police of the metropolis.

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1796 — 11 editions
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A Treatise on the Wealth, Power, and Resources of the British Empire ...

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1814 — 6 editions
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A treatise on the commerce and police of the River Thames.

by Patrick Colquhoun
First published in 1800 — 5 editions
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A treatise on the police of the metropolis: containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered; and suggesting remedies for their prevention

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1796 — 3 editions

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A treatise on indigence: exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of the poor, and improving the moral habits and increasing the comforts of the labouring people ...

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1806 — 2 editions
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treatise on the wealth, power, and resources, of the British Empire, in every quarter of the world: including the East Indies; the rise and progress of the funding system explained ...

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1815 — 2 editions

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A representation of facts relative to the rise and progress of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain: with observations on the means of extending and improving this valuable branch of trade, for the benefit of individuals concerned, and the nation at large

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1789 — 2 editions

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A treatise on the commerce and police of the River Thames: containing an historical view of the trade of the port of London and suggesting means for preventing the depredations thereon by a legislative system of river police : with an account of the functions of the various magistrates and corporations exercising jurisdiction on the river and a general view of the penal and remedial statutes connected with the subject

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1800 — 2 editions

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Suggestions offered to the consideration of the public: and in particular to the more opulent classes of the community, for the purpose of reducing the consumption of bread corn and relieving at the same time the labouring people by the substitution of other cheap, wholesome and nourishing food ; and especially by means of soup establishments ...

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1799 — 2 editions

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A treatise on the police of the metropolis: containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention

by Patrick Colquhoun
First published in 1805 — 2 editions
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Strong reasons for the continuance of the property tax: to which is added, an estimate of the national income, recently made by Patrick Colquhoun ...

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1814 — 2 editions

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A treatise on the functions and duties of a constable.

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1803 — 2 editions

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A new and appropriate system of education for the labouring people: elucidated and explained, according to the plan which has been established for the religious and moral instruction of male and female children, admitted into the free school, no. 19, Orchard Street, in the city of Westminster : containing an exposition of the nature and importance of the design, as it respects the general interest of the community : with details, explanatory of the particular economy of the institution, and the methods prescribed for the purpose of securing and preserving a greater degree of moral rectitude, as a means of preventing criminal offences by habits of temperance, industry, subordination, and loyalty, among that useful class of the community, comprising the labouring people of England : to which are added, concluding observations, on the importance of extending the system generally, under the aid and sanction of the legislature

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1806 — 2 editions

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$Cover of: Epitome of a scheme of finance: whereby a considerable revenue may be obtained without taxation or any burthen [i.e. burden] on the country, while it would afford great relief to the agricultural, commercial, trading and manufacturing interests of the country, at this particular and most important crisis, by lending money on mortgages and by issuing notes as a circulating medium, where every note so issued shall represent the fraction of a mortgage on freehold, copyhold, and leasehold property, and pass into the hands of the public, through the medium of such loans. With observations on the means of improving and extending the general resources of the British Empire.$
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Epitome of a scheme of finance: whereby a considerable revenue may be obtained without taxation or any burthen [i.e. burden] on the country, while it would afford great relief to the agricultural, commercial, trading and manufacturing interests of the country, at this particular and most important crisis, by lending money on mortgages and by issuing notes as a circulating medium, where every note so issued shall represent the fraction of a mortgage on freehold, copyhold, and leasehold property, and pass into the hands of the public, through the medium of such loans. With observations on the means of improving and extending the general resources of the British Empire.

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1816 — 1 edition
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A general view of the causes and existence of frauds, embezzlements, peculation and plunder, of His Majesty's stores: in the dock yards, and other public repositories and in the naval department in general; with remedies humbly suggested for the purpose of preventing these evils and abuses. By P. Colquhoun, LL.D.

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1799 — 1 edition

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A general view of the depredations committed on West-India and other property in the port of London; the partial remedies which have been successfully applied in suppressing these evils, and the measures proposed for rendering them permanent and effectual. By P. Colquhoun, LL.D

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1799 — 1 edition

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A general view of the national police system: recommended by the Select Committee of Finance to the House of Commons, and the functions of the proposed Central Board of Police Revenue: with observations on the probable effects of the general designs in the prevention of crimes, and in securing the rights of the peaceful subject. By P. Colquhoun, LL.D.

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1799 — 1 edition

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letter to H. Knight Storks ... in reply to the secret memoranda transmitted by him to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the colonies and laid before the House of Lords on 27th July, 1863

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1863 — 1 edition

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new and appropriate system of education for the labouring people ...according to the plan which has been established for the religious and moral instruction of male and female children admitted into the free school, No. 19, Orchard Street, in the City of Westminster ...

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1806 — 1 edition

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Observations and facts relative to public houses: interesting to magistrates

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1794 — 1 edition

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merchant, statistician, magistrate, river police (1745-1820)

Born	1745
Died	1820

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OLID: OL2042081A
ISNI: 0000000083566499
Library of Congress Names: n84136019
Project Gutenberg: 37804
VIAF: 10629985
Wikidata: Q1241256
Inventaire.io: wd:Q1241256

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