"At a very early age I became thoroughly conversant with the practical management of... landed property. In 1847 the Administration of the Poor Law in Scotland had fallen into great disorder. The district of country in which I then resided appointed a Committee [which] elected me as their Chairman and entrusted me with the duty of devising a new system of Poor Relief. The scheme which I prepared... and carried out... proved so successful that the Poor Law Board of Scotland requested me to draw up a Report of it to be laid before Parliament... My paper... had great effect in encouraging the rest of the country to adopt the same system and... it has been universally followed."
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Theory and Practice of Banking
Theory and Practice of Banking, Volumes 1 & 2, by Scottish economist and historian , was published 1855-1856 by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Quotes below, unless otherwise noted, are from the fourth edition, London, Green, Reader and Dyer, London.
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