Senior, Nassau William 1790-1864
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Born 1790 · died 1864
Nassau William Senior, was an English lawyer and economist. He was also a government adviser over several decades on economic and social policy on which he wrote extensively. In his writings, he made early contributions to theories of value and monopoly.
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Correspondence, tour journals, lecture notes, memoranda and other papers on Poor Laws, the Irish Question and numerous other aspects of his interests, and from the whole period of his life. Also family papers from before and biographical materials from after his life. Nassau Senior papers, National Library of Wales (NLW)
Six volumes of journal, 1853-1863, of tours mainly in France. Bodleian, MS. Eng. Hist. d245-d247, d259-d260, d262.
17 volumes of journal, 1855-1863. Bristol UL
An account of the Poor Law Amendment Bill conference of 1834. London UL, MS. 173.
Correspondents
CHARLES BABBAGE, four letters, 1836. BL Add. MSS. 37189-37201.
JOSEPH HEKEKYAN BEY, seven letters, 1856-1862. BL Add. MS. 37463.
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 27 letters, 1831-1861. Brougham papers, University College London (UCL)
EDWIN CHADWICK, six items, 1834-1845. Chadwick papers, UCL
HENRY RICHARD VASSALL Fox, 3rd Baron of Holland, 21 letters, 1851-18G7. BL Add. MS. 52021.
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, four letters, 1851-1854. BL Add. MSS. 44370-44382.
GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, three letters, 1842-1859. BL Add. MSS. 43239, 43255.
HENRY GEORGE GREY, 3rd Earl Grey, four letters, 1836-1853. Grey of Howick papers, Durham DP
SAMUEL JONES LOYD, Baron Overstone, two letters, 1840-1852. Overstone papers, London UL, MS. 804.
MACVEY NAPIER, 65 letters, 1841-1847. BL Add. MSS. 34261-34266.
JOHN GORHAM PALFREY, two letters, 1856-1860. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
JOSEPH PARKES, two letters, 1854. Parkes papers, UCL
ADOLPHE QUETELET, 30 letters, 1831-1851. Quetelet papers, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels.
CHARLES SUMNER, two letters, n.d. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
CHARLES EDWARD POULETT THOMSON, , Baron Sydenham, three letters, 1837. Grey of Howick papers, Durham DP
THOMAS HYDE VILLIERS, two items, 1831. Bodleian, MS. Clar. Dep. c548.
DANIEL WEBSTER, two letters, 1839. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
SIR ROBERT JOHN WILMOT-HORTON, 16 letters, 1829-1836. Catton collection, Derby Borough Library.
Printed Material
MARIAN BOWLEY, Nassau Senior and Classical Economics ( London, 1937).
SAMUEL L. LEVY, Nassau W. Senior, 1790 – 1864 (Newton Abbot, 1970).
NASSAU w. SENIOR, Industrial Efficiency and Social Economy, ed. S. L. Levy, 2 vols. ( London, 1929).
New Palgrave; ODNB; Boase III 492; ESS XIII 662; IESS XIV 169.
Portraits: BL (P); see Levy (above).