Social classes and their rolls in England 1800’s society

By Charles Turner

Highest Orders

• Royal family• Generals and Admirals• Bishops• Lords of State• We have met no

members of Highest Orders in Great Expectations

Queen Victoria

Second Class

• Baronets• Knights• Country Gentlemen -

Pip in the second book• People with Large

incomes - Ms Havisham

Sir Thomas Beauchamp-Proctor, 2nd Baron of the County of Norfolk

Third Class

• Clergy• Doctors• Merchants• Large Scale

Manufacturers• Bankers

Dr James Gully

• Manufacturers of the second class

• Shopkeepers• Artists• Builders• Mechanics• People with

moderate income

Fourth Class

• Lesser clergy• Doctors• Lawyers - Jaggers• Teachers• Ship owners• Merchants

Fifth Class

• Lesser freeholdersShopkeepers

• Innkeepers -Barnard• Publicans• People in random or

multiple jobs

Workers from odd jobs

Sixth Class

• Working men• Artists• Craftsmen (wood

carvers, blacksmiths-Joe, sculptors, carpenters, and others)

• Farmers

Farmers on the fields

Seventh Class

• Paupers• Vagrants• Gypsies• Unemployed• Gangs / Mafia

Paupers on the side of the Road

Army and Navy

• Officers• Seamen• Soldiers• Pensioners• Marines

Officers of the Navy

Percentage of Population

Highest OrderSecond ClassThird ClassFourth ClassFifth ClassSixth ClassSseventh ClassArmy/Navy

Class Percentage

Highest Order 0.00953

Second Class0.776

Third Class0.0371

Fourth Class3.87

Fifth Class9.26

Sixth Class29.1

Seventh Class53.5

Army and Navy3.08

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