The Royal Commission for inquiring into the condition of the poorer classes in Ireland was an initiative to investigate the causes of widespread destitution in Ireland at the beginning of the 19th century. The Commission conducted its extensive survey over three years, from 1833 until 1836, during which time it published various reports of its findings and recommendations.

According to its first report in 1835, the members initially appointed were:

• Richard Whately
  Richard Whately
  Richard Whately was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.-Life and times:...
  
  
• Daniel Murray
  Daniel Murray (archbishop)
  Daniel Murray was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin.He was educated at Dr. Betagh's school, and at Salamanca, and ordained priest in 1790. After some years as curate in Dublin he was transferred to Arklow, and was there in 1798 when the rebellion broke out...
  
  
• Charles Vignoles
• Richard More O'Ferrall
  Richard More O'Ferrall
  Richard More O'Ferrall was an Irish politician.He was born in Balyna, Moyvalley, County Kildare, Ireland, the eldest son of Major Ambrose O'Ferrall and his first wife, Anne Bagot....
  
  
• James Carlile
  James Carlile
  James Carlile was a Scottish clergyman from Paisley. He was a joint minister of a Scots church in Dublin and an Irish commissioner of education. He introduced a different style of education in Ireland whereby children of different denominations could go to the same school.-Biography:Carlile was...
  
  
• Fenton Hort
• John Corrie
• James Naper
• William Battie-Wrightson

External links

• Index to reports of Irish Poor Law Commissioners, 1835-39 1845 633 pages
• Condition of the poorer classes in Ireland: first report: appendix A and supplement 1835 1218 pages
• Condition of the poorer classes in Ireland: second report 1836 17 pages
• The condition of the poorer classes in Ireland; third report 1836 592 pages
• The condition of the poorer classes in Ireland: Charitable institutions in the principal towns and Dublin report 1836 566 pages
• Condition of the poorer classes in Ireland: answers to queries put to magistrates 1836 191 pages
• Condition of the poorer classes in Ireland: appendix G: state of the Irish poor in Great Britain (Summary of) 2 pages
• Condition of the poorer classes in Ireland: remarks by G. C. Lewis on the third report (confidential) 1837 38 pages

All preceding from the digital archive project EPPI, University of Southampton

University of Southampton

The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...

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