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The Census Act 1800 – also known as the Population Act 1800 – (41 Geo. 3. (G.B.) c. 15) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which enabled the first Census of England, Scotland and Wales to be undertaken. The census was carried out in 1801 and has been repeated almost every ten years thereafter.
An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual an Act, passed in the third Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled, "An Act for the recovering of small Debts, and for the relieving of poor Debtors in London;" [j] and an Act, passed in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, to explain and ...
Census Act 1800; Criminal Lunatics Act 1800 ... Making of Bread, etc. Act 1800; Mutiny Act 1800; N. New Forest Act 1800; T. Treason Act 1800; U. Acts of Union 1800 ...
1 January – legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [1] 10 March – the first British census is carried out (under terms of the Census Act 1800), with the Scottish counts undertaken by schoolmasters. The population of Scotland is ...
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Creating the United Kingdom census John Rickman FRS (22 August 1771 – 11 August 1840) was an English government official and statistician of the early nineteenth century. He was born in Newburn , Northumberland, son of the Rev Thomas Rickman, and educated at Guildford Grammar School , Magdalen Hall, Oxford , and Lincoln College, Oxford .
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The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3. c.