biography
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| lived:
| (1623–87)
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| biography:
| Economist, born in Romsey, Hampshire, S England, UK. He went to sea, then studied medicine at Leyden, Paris, and Oxford. He taught anatomy at Oxford, and music at Gresham College, London. Appointed physician to the army in Ireland (1652), he executed a fresh survey of the Irish lands forfeited in 1641, and started ironworks, lead-mines, sea-fisheries, and other industries on estates he bought in SW Ireland. He was made surveyor-general of Ireland by Charles II. His most significant economic work was Treatise on Taxes (1662). |
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