John Revans

John Revans was secretary to the English Poor Law Commission[1] and the Royal Commission on the Poorer Classes in Ireland 1833.[2] In 1836, he was appointed assistant commissioner of the Poor Laws.[3] In the 1840s he conducted an examination of the Chartist land settlements for the Poor Law Commissioners.[4]

He was described as a "Benthamite radical".[5]

Selected publications
  • Observations on the timber trade. Richardson, 1831.[6]
  • Remarks on the navigation laws. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1831.
  • Evils of the state of Ireland, their causes, and their remedy; a poor law. 1836.[7][8]

References
  1. "Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons: Education ; 1". 1836. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  2. Houston, R. (2 July 2014). Peasant Petitions: Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates ... - Rab Houston. ISBN 9781137394095. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  3. "Bulletins and Other State Intelligence". 1836. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  4. Armytage, W.H.G., (1961) Heavens below: Utopian experiments in England 1560-1960. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961. p. 232.
  5. Cobden, Richard; Morgan, Simon (2007). The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume III: 1854-1859 - Richard Cobden, Anthony Howe, Simon Morgan. ISBN 9780199211975. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  6. "The Westminster Review". 1837. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  7. The Metropolitan. James Cochrane. 1836. p. 15. Retrieved 25 November 2015 – via Internet Archive.
  8. Ciosáin, Niall (February 2014). Ireland in Official Print Culture, 1800-1850: A New Reading of the Poor Inquiry - Niall Ó Ciosáin. ISBN 9780199679386. Retrieved 25 November 2015.


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