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 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 ...

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1800 — 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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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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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 functions and duties of a constable: containing details and observations interesting to the public, as they relate to the corruption of morals, and the protection of the peaceful subject against penal and criminal offences

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1803 — 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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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 substitution of other cheap, wholesome and nourishing food ; and especially by means of soup establishments, &c

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1799 — 2 editions

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A 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 1965 — 1 edition

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An account of a meat and soup charity, established in the metropolis, in the year 1797, with observations relative to the situation of the poor, and on the means of bettering the condition of the labouring people with regard to food; and of increasing their comforts in other respects, by a more frugal mode of living, particularly in the city of London, and its environs

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1797 — 1 edition

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Reflections on the causes which have produced the present distress in commercial credit: with suggestions relative to the means of remedy-ing the evil in future, and of granting immediate and effectual relief to the merchants and manufacturers

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1793 — 1 edition

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Useful suggestions favourable to the comfort of the labouring people, and to decent housekeepers: explaining how a small income may be made to go far in a family, so as to occasion a considerable saving in the article of bread : a circumstance of great importance to be known at the present juncture

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1795 — 1 edition

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Case of the British merchants who traded to America previous to the late war: with propositions for ... putting on public record, the whole bona fide claims ... secured and guaranteed to real British subjects, by the treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States; with observations on the means of rendering the just claims ...

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1787 — 1 edition

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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 1806 — 1 edition
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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 — 1 edition

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An important crisis in the callico and muslin manufactory in Great Britain, explained

by Patrick Colquhoun First published in 1788 — 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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