Note 23 to Chapter 1 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
See also Robert Patten's interesting worry with this question; Patten, p. 3. R. V. Jackson, p. 563, notes a variety of "nominal annual earnings in skilled service occupations" for 1851 within the civil service: schoolmasters £81 a year, clergy £167, surgeons and doctors £200, and as top pay for solicitors and barristers £1,837.
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