Henry Bishop (clergyman)

Henry Bishop (c,1800–1857) was an English cleric and academic, fellow of Oriel College, University of Oxford.[1] He was the third son of Samuel Willson Bishop, a London merchant who moved to Oxford.[2]

Bishop was a member of the Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832 which reformed the Poor Law system in England and Wales.[3] He died at Tunbridge Wells on 10 April 1857, at age 64.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.victorianweb.org/history/poorlaw/membersrc.html
  2. ↑ "Some Oxford doctors: Charles Joseph Bishop (1794–1838)". Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.victorianweb.org/history/poorlaw/membersrc.html
  4. ↑ Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.) (1857). Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Edward Cave. p. 624.


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