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R. Torrens

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Anglo-Irish Royal Marine, economist, and chair of South Australian Colonisation Commission (1780-1864)

Born 1780
Died 1864

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  • Cover of: A letter to Lord Ashley, on the principles which regulate wages and on the manner and degree in which wages would be reduced
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    First published in 1844 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A letter to Nassau William Senior, esq.: in reply to the article "Free trade and retaliation" in the Edinburgh review, no. CLVII

    First published in 1843 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Melbourne, on the causes of the recent derangement in the money market, and on bank reform

    First published in 1837 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A letter to Thomas Tooke, esq.: In reply to his objections against the separation of the business of the bank into a department of issue, and a department of deposit and discount: with a plan of bank reform.

    First published in 1840 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: On the operation of the Bank charter act of 1844, as it affects commercial credit.

    First published in 1847 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The principles and practical operation of Sir Robert Peel's Act of 1844: explained and defended; with additional chapters on money, the gold discoveries, and international exchange; and A critical examination of the chapter On the regulation of a convertible paper currency, in J.S. Mill's Principles of Political Economy.
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    First published in 1857 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Reply to the objections of the Westminster review to the government plan for the regulation of the currency.

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  • Cover of: Self-supporting colonization: Ireland saved, without cost to the imperial treasury

    First published in 1847 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Substance of a speech delivered by Colonel Torrens, in the House of Commons, 15th February, 1827, on the motion of Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, Bart., for the reappointment of a Select Committee on Emigration from the United Kingdom.

    First published in 1962 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Systematic colonisation: Ireland saved, without cost to the imperial treasury.

    First published in 1849 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Tracts on finance and trade: submitted to the consideration of the electors of the United Kingdom

    First published in 1852 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: An essay on the production of wealth: 1821

    First published in 1965 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: An essay on the transfer of land by registration under the duplicate method operative in British colonies
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    First published in 1873 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: An essay on money and paper currency

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  • Cover of: The Budget: On Commercial and Colonial Policy : with an Introduction in which the Deductive ...
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  • Cover of: A Comparative Estimate of the Effects which a Continuance and a Removal of ...
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    First published in 1819 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The economists refuted: or, an inquiry into the nature and extent of the advantages derived from trade : with observations on the expediency of making peace with France : And an appendix, discussing the policy of prohibiting corn in the distilleries

    First published in 1808 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The economists refuted and other earlyeconomic writings

    First published in 1993 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A letter to ... lord viscount Melbourne, on the causes of the recent derangement in the money ...
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    First published in 1837 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Victim Of Intolerance or the Hermit Of Killarney
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    First published in 1814 — 1 edition
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We need a photo of R. Torrens

Anglo-Irish Royal Marine, economist, and chair of South Australian Colonisation Commission (1780-1864)

Born 1780
Died 1864

Subjects

Currency question, Corn laws (Great Britain), Economics, Bank of England, Colonization, Emigration and immigration, Paper money, Commerce, Grain trade, Tariff, Wages, Banks and banking, Economic policy, Agriculture, Commercial policy, Free trade, Land titles, Money, Registration and transfer, Bankwezen, Colonies, Commerce and industries, Corn laws, Finance, Free trade and protection

Places

Great Britain, South Australia, Grande-Bretagne, Ireland, Australia, Canada, Ontario, Perth, Perth (Ont.)

People

Thomas Tooke (1774-1858), James Wilson (1805-1860), John Fullarton (1780?-1849), John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Nassau William Senior (1790-1864), R. Torrens (1780-1864), Robert Owen (1771-1858)

Time

19th century

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Alternative names

  • Robert Torrens

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September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
December 11, 2019 Edited by Camillo Pellizzari merge authors
June 7, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Removed period from death date
August 22, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import