Henry Gawler

Henry Gawler (1766–1852)[1] was an English barrister. Gawler was one of seven people who wrote the Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832, a report which recommended changes to the Poor Law system in England and Wales.[2] Three portraits of him as a schoolboy appear in the National Portrait Gallery, London.[1]

Henry Gawler (l.) as child with his brother John. (Henry Bone)

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