Charles Booth (social reformer)
Charles James Booth was a British shipowner, Comtean positivist, social researcher, and reformer, best known for his innovative philanthropic studies on working-class life in London towards the end of the 19th century.
Charles Booth (social reformer)
Blue plaque in memory of Charles Booth at 6 Grenville Place, London SW7.
Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, CH was an English sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist. He is known in particular for his three studies of poverty in York, conducted in 1899, 1935, and 1951.
Poverty in towns, slum dwellers in Dublin, Ireland c. 1901