ABSTRACT
Demographers study human population, analysing especially rates of birth, death and migration and their effect on communities and social structure. In recent years, historians have been much more cautious in their use of the word revolution. Malthus was both an Anglican clergyman and a student of economics. Irelands apparent population explosion seems the more surprising if one leans on stereotypes rather than the more complex reality. Demographic historians of Britain discount the last explanation. In the British Isles, only the substantial emigration from Ireland seems to have contributed significantly to long-term population change and, although much of that was eventually to North America, a larger proportion came to settle in industrial England and Scotland. Changes in death rates among the adult population were much more dramatic. Coram was a philanthropist who made his money building ships in New England, from investment in colonial developments in the New World and from commerce through London.
