Acland, John (1728/9–1795), Church of England clergyman and writer on social issues, was born at Broadclyst, Devon, the only son of John Acland (1698/9–1744), Church of England clergyman, and his wife, whose name is unknown but who was a daughter of ...
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Francis Espinasse
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John Anderson (1893–1962) by Sir William Dobell, 1962 © DACS 2010; University of Sydney Art Collection, John Anderson Testimonial Fund, 1962. Reproduced courtesy of Sir William Dobell Art Foundation
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Anderson, John (1893–1962), philosopher and social critic, was born in Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, 30 miles south-west of Glasgow, on 1 November 1893, the third of the five children of a radical schoolmaster, Alexander Anderson (1863–1947), and his wife, Elizabeth Brown (d. 1942), teacher, pianist, and poet....
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Boutmy, Emile Gaston (1835–1906), political scientist and commentator on British life and institutions, was born on 13 April 1835 in Paris. He was the son of Laurent-Joseph Boutmy, a journalist and businessman who died in financial ruin in 1848. Educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand...
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Brodbelt [née Penoyre], Anne (1751–1827), letter writer and social observer, was born on 1 January 1751 at Spanish Town, Jamaica, one of two children of Thomas Penoyre (1722–1766), physician, and his wife, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Gardner of Spanish Town. The Penoyres...
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Davies, David (1742–1819), Church of England clergyman and writer on social issues, was born on 9 February 1742 of Welsh parentage. His origins and early life are obscure, although his will suggests that his family originated in the border area of Merioneth and ...
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D'Eichthal, Gustave (1804–1886), visionary and social observer, was born in Nancy, the son of Louis D'Eichthal (1780–1840), a Jewish banker, and his wife, Fleurette, née Lévy (d. 1837). Raised as a Catholic from 1817, when he was baptized at Deüil, near Versailles...
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Demant, Vigo Auguste (1893–1983), theologian and social commentator, was born on 8 November 1893 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the eldest of three children and only son of Thorvald Conrad Frederick Demant, a professional linguist and translator, who started a language school in Newcastle...
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Donald Winch
Eden, Sir Frederick Morton, second baronet (1766–1809), insurance company manager and writer on the state of the poor, was born at Ashtead, Surrey, the eldest son of Sir Robert Eden (created a baronet in 1776), governor of Maryland, and grandson of Sir Robert Eden, ...
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W. B. Owen
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Fowle, Thomas Welbank (1835–1903), theologian and writer on social issues, was born at Northallerton, Yorkshire, on 29 August 1835. He was the son of Thomas Fowle, solicitor, and of Mary Welbank, both of Northallerton. After education at Durham School (1848–53) and at Charterhouse...
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James Thompson
Gaevernitz, Gerhart von Schulze- (1864–1943), political economist and commentator on Britain, was born in Breslau on 25 July 1864, the only son of Hermann von Schulze-Gaevernitz (1824–1888), constitutional lawyer and academic, who in 1853 had published a book on the English economy, and his wife, ...
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Gill, (Arthur) Eric Rowton (1882–1940), artist, craftsman, and social critic, was born at 32 Hamilton Road, Brighton, Sussex, on 22 February 1882, the eldest son and second of the thirteen children of the Revd Arthur Tidman Gill (1848–1933), minister of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion...
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(Arthur) Eric Rowton Gill (1882–1940) self-portrait, 1927 © courtesy the Artist's Estate / Bridgeman Art Library; Art Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin
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Glyde [formerly Glide], John (1823–1905), social commentator and antiquary, was born at 9 Eagle Street, Ipswich, on 14 December 1823, the second son of John Glide (1800–1880), a hairdresser, and his wife, Mary Ann née Bond (1794–1844). Glide...
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Christopher Hibbert
Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke (1794–1865), political and social diarist, was born in London on 2 April 1794. His father, Charles Greville, MP for Petersfield and under-secretary of state in the Home department, was a grandson of the fifth Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court...
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Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794–1865) by Alfred, Count D'Orsay, 1840 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Jay, (Arthur) Osborne Montgomery (1858–1945), Church of England clergyman and social commentator, was born on 14 April 1858 at Landour, north India, the second son of the Revd William James Jay and Harriet, daughter of Martin Rawling of St Ives, Huntingdonshire. His parents had married in 1850 just as ...
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Kenward [née Kemp- Welch], Elizabeth [Betty] [pseud. Jennifer] (1906–2001), society columnist, was born on 14 July 1906 at 87 Cadogan Gardens, London, the eldest child and only daughter of Brian Charles Durant Kemp-Welch (1878–1950), who worked for Schweppes, and his wife, ...
