Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832 Commission were:, The first seven were appointed in 1832, the last two in 1833. The writers of the report suggested radical changes to English Poor Laws: There was strong support for the report from all sides of Parliament. The report's ideas were quickly passed into law. The Whigs controlled the House of Commons and supported the utilitarian arguments of thinkers such as Jeremy Bentham. Those that did not support the bill were more concerned with the levels of centralisation the act would bring rather than the recommendations of the report such as the building of workhouses. The report lowered the
Jeremy Taylor (writer) founding members of the organising committee for the first Bocas LitFest, the Trinidad & Tobago literary festival, in April/May 2011. Jeremy Taylor (writer) Jeremy Taylor is a writer, editor and publisher who was born in England and has lived and worked in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean since 1971. Taylor attended The King's School, Ely. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Cambridge (1962–65), and then a Master of Arts and Diploma in Education from Makerere University in Uganda (1966–67). In Trinidad, he taught at Fatima College before starting as a freelance journalist