John Rickman

An opponent of the ideas of Thomas Malthus (which alarmed many people with their talk of exponential population growth), he is credited with the idea, in 1798 , of conducting a national Census every 10 years, and was responsible for the censuses conducted from 1801 to 1831 .

He served as Clerk to the House Of Commons from 1814 to 1819 and was a friend of notable figures including Poet Robert Southey , essayist Charles Lamb and Civil Engineer Thomas Telford .

Telford and Rickman were both members of two Commissions established in 1803 - one for the Caledonian Canal through Scotland 's Great Glen , and one for Highland Road and Bridges - which administered the rapid expansion of Scotland's infrastructure during the early 1800s.

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