Author:Robert Torrens

Robert Torrens
(1780–1864)

Works

• The Economists Refuted; Or, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Extent of the Advantages Derived from Trade, 1808
• Celibia Choosing a Husband (1809), a novel
• An Essay on Money and Paper Currency, 1812. (external scan)
• The Victim Of Intolerance or the Hermit Of Killarney, 1814 (external scan)
• An Essay on the External Corn Trade, 1815. (external scan)
• A paper on the means of reducing the poors rates, 1817 (external scan)
• A comparative estimate of the effects which a continuance and a removal of the restriction upon cash payments are respectively calculated to produce: with strictures on Mr. Ricardo's proposal for obtaining a secure and economical currency, 1819 (external scan)
• An Essay on the Production of Wealth, 1821. (external scan)
• Letters on Commercial Policy, 1833.
• On Wages and Combination, 1834. (external scan)
• Evidence in "Report from the Select Committee on Steam Carriages" (1834)
• Colonization Of South Australia, 1835 (external scan)
• A Letter to the Right Honorable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. Etc On the Condition of England, and on the Means of Removing the Causes of Distress, 1843 (external scan)
  • Postscript to a Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel on the condition of England, and on the means of removing the causes of distress, 1843 (external scan)
  • A Letter to the Right Honorable Sir Robert Peel, Bart..., second edition, 1849 (external scan)
• The Budget: On Commercial and Colonial Policy, 1844 (external scan)
• The Principles and Practical Operation of Sir Robert Peel's Bill of 1844, 1844. (external scan)
• Tracts on Finance and Trade, 1852.
• Two speeches of Robert R. Torrens, Esq., M.P., on emigration, and the colonies, 1870 (external scan)

Works about Torrens

• "Torrens, Robert," in A Compendium of Irish Biography, by Alfred Webb, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son (1878)
• "Torrens, Robert (1780-1864)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.