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Name
  
G. Bevan


Role
  
Author

Books
  
Tourist's Guide to Warwickshire, Tourist's Guide to the West, Tourist's guide to Hampshir, Tourist's Guide to the West, Primer of the Industrial

George Phillips Bevan (1829 – 1889) F.S.S., F.G.S. was a Victorian statistician, geographer and author, and the brother of William Latham Bevan.

Contents

Bevan's Statistical Atlas (1882)

His Statistical Atlas was a massive tome with 45 plates, each 20×28 inches, and many statistical tables.

It provides a useful reference list of schools of the period.

The Educational Condition of the United Kingdom

These tables and map provide a useful reference to educational institutions of the 1880s, including statistical information about the following:

  • Primitive Methodist
  • York Jubilee School (Elmfield College)
  • Birmingham Bourne College
  • Moravian
  • Fulneck School
  • Gomersal School
  • Mirfield School
  • Wyke School

    • Publications

  • 1880 The strikes of the past ten years. Journal of the Statistical Society of London, 43(1), 35–64.
  • 1880 Tourists' Guide to the West Riding of Yorkshire ... With ... Maps.
  • 1882 The Statistical Atlas of England, Scotland and Ireland. Edinburgh & London: W. & A. K. Johnston

    • British Manufacturing Industries

    Bevan edited a series of volumes consisting of papers on primary manufacturing and crafts in the UK. There were 15 volumes, published from 1876 to 1878.

    References

    G. Phillips Bevan Wikipedia
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