Walter Coulson
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Walter Coulson was a newspaper editor, barrister and an associate of Jeremy Bentham
. He served as Parliamentary reporter on the Morning Chronicle and was the editor of the evening paper The Traveler. He was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission
that led to the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
. His brother William Coulson was a distinguished surgeon.
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism...
. He served as Parliamentary reporter on the Morning Chronicle and was the editor of the evening paper The Traveler. He was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission
Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832
The 1832 Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws was a group set up to decide how to change the Poor Law systems in England and Wales. The group included Nassau Senior, a professor from Oxford University who was against the allowance system, and Edwin Chadwick, who was a Benthamite...
that led to the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, sometimes abbreviated to PLAA, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the Whig government of Lord Melbourne that reformed the country's poverty relief system . It was an Amendment Act that completely replaced earlier legislation based on the...
. His brother William Coulson was a distinguished surgeon.